The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1922, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR ins i ; llectors will find you in. @ The old fellow who Your sins may find you out, but your collec eth Te eee Tce medosen tn’ Been, tal t the Olympic races, @ Only four more shopping months until Christmas. | ) y c Says he is 60 years young usually is. When she hasn't a thing to wear she calls it a bathing suit. qc s pad need stropping every hundred miles. @ The question of the hour is “What time is it?” @ English girls outran ours a et they say our girls are too fast. LETTERS 5 EDITOR SS | Questions Hemphill’s Figures oe Editor The star: us by our local dealer, for which we In Mr, Hemphiil's letter of the| paid $11.50. 30th, “Coal Prices Lower Here,” he hither Mr. Hemphi!!" quotes Neweastle lump at $9.50 per ton On the 224 of this month we had « ton of Newoastle lump delivered to Neither of Board’s Ideas Attained Editor The Star: of taxation has not been reduced, as ‘When the board of education voted | was promised, The classrooms are to reduce the salaries of teachers,/to have more pupils than last year, ians ince has enjoyed a jlast June, the proponents of that The board momber who tn tearful the Indi away, end ever, © : idea stated that the reduction would | voice on June 9 bewalled economies ic monopoly of the salmon industry by reason of accomplish two objects, namely: | “at the expenseof the poor little chil simple fact that the Columbia is abnormally narrow 1. A reduetion of expenditures and, | dren” is exhibiting bo remorse now at that point. consequently, # reduction of the rate | that the poor little children are to be j som laces you could | of taxation. | herded tnto crowded rooms, under : . It pee, fe my eae Be Foe ally vanlReaae it is 2. It would enable the board to the tutelage of teachers who, in turn, \apotis. The agricultural department ts| ‘The Gepartment #tf) hes $2) investigating and if It finds the evt-| 000,000 worth of stock for ai denes, Kentucky will get no more|The “good” atates will get it. supplies. The department also has its| “bad,” ike the little pig of eye on Indiana. rhyme, will get none. The Seattle Star ¥ Pudliahed Daily by The Btar Publishing Ce, Phone Main 9400 Newspaper Enterprise Associatign and United Press boanggoe itl mail ot city, #00 month; # months, $1.60) ¢ mon! eS inne erate of Weshingten. Gutside of the state, fe per month, @ months, or $9.00 per year, By carrier, city, ste @ month. APLetter from. AIWRIDGE MANN. Dear Folks With all the bishops coming Weat, I cannot get them off my chest; I ‘feel, when I begin to write, I have to try to be polite, confining all my dafly guff to sort of quiet, churchy stuff. But now I fear my errant pen has doublecrossed me once againy for tho, today, I bravely tried to be sedate and dignified, My pen—a hopeless tnfidel—relates a yarn they used A fervent Methodist, they say, who praised th way, had entered, tn saivation’s esearch, « high Bptscopalian church, and sat in solemn alience there, thru Bible reading, song and prayer. Seufert of the Dalles is in the midst of a controversy over a fall Measure to regulate further the fishing privileges the Columbia river. Naturally, Washington is consid- H i a rested in the outcome, ia Much ot the agitation in our neighbor state revolves about the Seufert corporation. - Seufert himself came to The Dalles a long time ago, ¥. MKS, A. B. TALCOTT. 6007 16th Ava. N. to Get Ahead NE of the surest ways of getting ahead is to form the habit of poring money systematically an depositing it in the Sav- rmon started in and then, enthured, he loosed « loud The preacher struck @ forceful chord—the stranger shouted, “Praise the Lord!" And every little now and then, he'd yell approval once again. An usher came and whispered low, “You mustn't shout tn bere, you know.” The Methodist replied with «: “I've got relig- fon, that i» all.” ‘The usher told him, firm and clear, “You mustn't get religion here!” . hire enough teachers to obviate the | are the victimes of the board's double. than 400 feet deep. Necessity of increasing the size of barreled “economy,” reduced pay and * Seufert owns or controls the wheels. Such wheels as does not own, he leases. These wheels are hung from ith artificial barriers that jut still farther into the he forces the fish to take the paths leading to wheels. Only those fish that pursue the exact cen- of the channel escape the traps. t is the percentage in favor of the wheel and the salmon that Seufert can afford to. pay roy- for the use of wheels he does not own. resident of The Dalles hasn't done a tap of work He rents two wheels to Seufert. He boasts hat his income, dependent entirely upon these wheels, is ( OO a year. He employs Chinese. They tend his traps and work cannery and orchards. They pay no attention to t-hour law. Seufert’s cannery is very modern. Me kas many screa of land behind his cannery, The fl is white sand which others considered worthless. by irrigation and fertilization, using fish refuse for latter purpose, Seufert has created a large and prof- orchard. He cans fruit as well as fish. fingerling profit is too smal] for Seufert’s net. He to his townspeople such “weelaps” as come to his A “weelaps” is a fish too small or of too poor yy to can. Dalles, ed on the bank of a river which is of fish, no one but Seufert is permitted to th, eats fresh “weelaps” at 15 to 25 cents a pound fresh Chinook at 25 cents and up. ifert is a director in a bank at The Dalles. He owns property. He has a finger in almost every pie. Dalles does not love Seufert, but {t does admire him shrewdness, his ruthlessness and his undoubted clasves, and thus not have the chil dren suffer as a result of the econ omy. } E. Shorrock, whe tntroduced the Tesolution for the salary cut, was quoted in the press on August 31 as deciaring that the sehool budget for the coming year will be little, If any smalier, than for last year, Figures given the press by Superintendent T. RK. Cole on August 28 show that the size of classes in the high schools will be greater than last year. | ‘Thus, neither of the objects sought by the cutting of teachers’ salaries has been realized, but the money ts | to be apent just the same The rate! Eéitor The Star: I note in The Star of August 29 system for the street railway to how this system ts going to beno- fit the average car patron anyhow? | The average worker rides to his| work six times « week, for which be, | rageous #0 fare, pays « dollar, ex actly the eame as Mr. Petiey would charge for his pass. Ans the sald | worker would take the pass with him, hie wife would have to pay the same hated S%e every time she Wanted something from the down town stores, and if they both wished to go to the park or beach on Sun day, one of them would have to pay that same notorious fara, The may: or of Tacoma anys that the pass sys | tem ts of very Little benefit to the ar- | increased clasnen. The only result, so far, of the board's pet monstrostty, otherwise called “economy,” is a discontented teaching corps, justly angered by the board's sletght-of-hand trick in hold ing up the fixing of salaries Uli the last week of school, and then lopping off generous slices of thelr pay in order that the money may be spent In other departments, | After all, it would be Interesting to know Just how the board intends to spend that $225,000 that was taken from the teachers WILBUR WINTITROP, Rainier Beach. tem will greatly reduce the cost of car fares, but in the same breath he that B. H. Potley advocates the pans | states that the revenue would be In. | transferred by the U, 6. government ‘Will | creased @ million or two a year, Will |? the various states to be used in} the gentleman kindly enlighten us as|the gentieman kindly elucidate ag to |Toad-building, are not always ured | kansas early jumped tnto the game, where this comes from, if not out of | the pockets of the car patrons? However, the writer ls no dog in the manger, tam, but he is reminded that the pass Me ie very willing that STs ma ; inder thi sent iniquitous and out |iona ef dollars’ worth of left-over | went to its political friends in Wash-| Neieeit ka oneal: tones aoe ate, Retley shall have bis pase ave | a A. iele—venging from ocmy|ingtes and brought strong pressure] But true or not, the atory shows a fact that everybody known; that people follow many wayne of seeking God and giving praise, which seems to Make it manifest, that he t# right who does his Charge States Are | Selling U.S. Gifts BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE jlegal means prevent the resale of WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Com-| such goods, but they can and will re plaints have reached official cars| fuse to give any states violating the here that the surplus war stocks | principle of the act a single dollar's | Worth of material in the future. The highway commission of Ar. for that purpose. An investigation i#| and sold the gifts of he United States under way. | government. The agricultural depart | The government, Wy act of con j ment promptly refused to give Ar! de it possible to utilize bil-|kansay any more material. Arkansas system wae not an issue in the last |tUCKA tractors and automobiles, to/to bear on the department; but to no elty election. / On the other hand, the So carfare was most emphatically the biggest iavue tm that election, It was on thin inaue, thta it ts now being advertined to the world, and not much to the city’s credit, either, that Seattle lont | ft» head for a moment and elected a/ socialist mayor. Now that the election is past and; gone, our great () mayor te holding | “ lknives, forks and spoons—in the! avail an allotment for the 80 Arkansas finally promised peaceful pureult of highway con-/to be good and is now back in the struction and any state could receive | fol4. The highway commission of Ken To fuciiitate the tra tucky is sald to be selling govern partment of a ure is acting a# | ment trucks at cut rates In Indian the agent of the war department to| whieh the materials belong. Evidence is accumulating, how. er, that millions of dollars worth of| An old negro woman came into « * property, belonging to th®) tollywood real estate office the) TIMELY AID erage car patron, on which point he / conferences with the offictals of the | |qame of pretty local polftics. High te eminently correct, The street car companies of Ta-| | Puget Sound Power & Light Co, and | way comminsions in verious states says, to effect, that we can not have | ore A to be eelling trucka auto- Cal, may have been caused by twe ise to “Beat the Devil” head of the oe of wee Oregon Agricultural college, is, N recently before the Presbyterian d at Corvallis. Among other things, he said: if church work is really worth while, then it is worth ing money Advertise to beat the devil. With attractions all clamoring for attention thru stands little show of successful the same methods of attracting and pays well. forth more cuss words, perhaps, in a any other type of copy. It is a the average minister turns in copy knowledge of journalistic principles often is not legible. ‘A minister who understands news values, who knows th to tell his story briefly, putting bait to catch the tion of the reader in the first paragraph and unfold- the details in order of importance, has at his command excellent means of filling the pews. “Avoid turning in matter which is purely free advertis- It should be paid for at regular rates. Many papers te a point of running sermons. Ministers could help sermons for reporters and bringing out of interest. Take newspaper rters into your and they will play square with you.” ‘We may, tf we choose, make the worst of one another. Everyone has weak points; everyone has his faults; we may make the worst of ‘we may fix our attention constantly upon these. But we may alxo the best of one another. We may forgive, even as we hope to bo a? oe one tp me 2 ans Let’s Have a Real Election Law A big Puyallup school burned down several weeks ago. The board wants to build another one, but an election is to vote the bonds. So the school board turns to find out how this may be done, and it finds [ of Puyallup will have to get along until ‘May. The law does not provide for special elections the schools. Our state election laws have been bungled and messed by every state legislature that meets. Two-by-four ers and little politicians imagine they know just how the election system, and they make the law more more ridiculous as they try. It’s about time to call in two or three of the best- med university professors and let them draft a plain, , readable sort of a school election law. And the ors should pass that bill. derasalem crickets! Literary Digest’s prohibition poll is showing that ‘women are wetter than the men. Kids remind us of canoes. It 1s much better to paddle your own, Another Step in Aviation ggg vid ae brea prvi gra thie 50 feet of irs c) © ground in landing, This ha i at Farmingdale, L. L rc) # ' * It is a stunt. But it is nt, for it demonstrates the day is not far off when an airplane can be land- safely in a small backyard instead of needing a land- -ground as big as a football field. Step by step, flying being perfected, made safer. ‘business; but suppose you ran a fife insurance “In Kentacky « petrified foot was found 32 feet underground; b s Pucky roads are better now than they once were. Mt Kem “People who wall in thelr sleep should know the town, coma and Everett are now busy | throwing out « smoke screen in the | fuise of @ ¢-cent fare under the pass | demand that Mayor Brown make system, but, of coursa, this ts noth | good his election pledge without de ing but pure bunk, as far ag the av: | iny, and if he falls to do #0, be should erage car rider ts concerned, and the | be invited to resign his office. As Proof of this ts that they refuse to | the writer understands ft, this te the grant even « So fare, let alone a ride correct procedure of the socialist for 40. They are laughing in thetr | party, and according to its bylaws Sleeves because their revenues have | and regulations, with which proced. greatly increased under the pase/ure the mayor presumably should So carfare without thelr permission. | The people of Seattle should now | aystem. mobiles and read. dullding machinery to friendly contractora, without bids |and without public warrant, The war department and the éo- partment of agriculture propose to put @ stop to this. They cannot by LEARN A WORD Mr. Petley says that the pase sys Ku Klux Klan Edttor The Star: Down in Oregon they are just cleaning up «@ political mens that will probably be quite a mens before 1 te all deodorized; we are not eapecially interested tn Oregon's troubles except that this particular annoyance may be experienced in Seattle before the coming elections are disposed of. The Ku Klux Kian went tnto Oregon politica tooth and nail at the recent primaries; tt had a@ ticket, and it secretly worked sealously for ite candidates. The kian was de feated and then {t started a recount campaign and made some charges against Its political enemies. The recount showed that If there had been any fraud it had redound- ed to the benefit and not the hurt of the kian, and then the real fun startea. $= Various gentiemen who had been attacked by kian candi dates during the heated campaign have instituted suits against these candidates, and in at least one case the gibel action makes the klan « party to the defense. Now 4 secret body, working on the religioue and racial fears and hates and bigotry of the ignorant, can do quite « bit of effective work in & campaign; but if this secret | find no fault. AL KENNEDY, 2437 13th Ave, W. in Our Politics body has to appear in court after the campaign, ahd answer as a body for its secret political schemes then that ts something else again. The Flan blew up so fir ae ite outward influence went when the Inglewood, Cal, raid was aired, Tho klan will doubtiees endeavor to work In secret at the coming elections, but if every night-ahirted knight of the klan knew that he was llkely to be called into court after election to answer for the deeds of his tookum pookum polit- foal bonses there would be few klan candidates and few kian voters. The Oregon way is right; let the land let it anewer In the open; secret vilification of candidates, secret slush funds, secret neasions of hood ed conspirators whispering in the dark have no logical out in this | nation except the hoosegow, and the sooner itinerant, due-collecting hob | goblins and chief jackpotentates got better for them. | A candidate who wil pledge him. [melt to a hooded |riders Is @ candidate that should be defeated, alwaya, x. ¥, Z klan make ite charges in the open | EVERY DAY Today's word le—FLUX. It's pronounced—flux, as spelled. As ordinarily used at the present day, it means—flowing, wu! constant; undergoing cha: 4 cons of fusion; in a quid state, usu. ally thru heat. It comes from—Latin “fluxum,” to flow. It's uned like thie—“Largety dus to the effects of the war, economic and |many other conditions are in ® state | lot flux, thruout the | world.”* | Brain Testers Can you do this? Divide 100 in two such parts that if the larger to divid practically Jed by the lesser the quotient ts also/ 100. Solution to yesterday's puzzle: The |hostess had but one guest for which | to provide. Her husband had tnvited | Smith, his father’s brother-in-law, j this thru their embossed beans the/ who was his brother's father-in-law, | because the hostess’ brother had mar. | ried Smith's doughter, and his father. crew of night | Indaw's brother, because he himself | |had married Smith's niece, and also his brother-in-law's father, as the hos. tess’ sister had marri¢d Smith's con, WANTED For Shops and Roundhouse Stationary Engineers. Stationary Firemen.. Boilermakers... Freight Car Men,. 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Dexter Horton National Bank \Second Ave.'and Cherry:St) ‘SEATTLE, Bring in your account on or before the 15th of this month and share in the earnings for the full four months’ period ending {) December 31, 1922. $1 to $5,000 ACCEPTED LM Ot SAVI = SEATTLE NGS and LOAN : SOCIATION SOD - SEAVE. : TINA SHOPMEN WANTED BY THE Union Pacific System Boilermakers, Machinists, Blacksmiths, Car Repairers and Car Inspectors For Employment at Points From Portland to Pocatello Free transportation and expenses paid to place of employment, also steady employment guaranteed and seniority rights protected for qualified men regardless of any strike settlement. APPLY TO W. H. OLIN Oregon Washington Station Seattle, Wash, WILLIAM CARRUTHERS 106 South 10th St., Tacoma