The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 6

coe morning, have you evaded your back taxes ye IMeot, why not? Lots of folks are doing it. The income tax division’s books show more than $1,000,- 000,000 in back taxes, some due the government since 1916. A big concern owes the treasury, say, $500,000 concern hires expert tax accountants, They showed up in Washington during 1918 with The Seattle Sta Peditened Dat! The Star Publiening Co Phone Main 0400, Hews. oY swZaciation and United Prese Bervics. By mall, owt of 1 # mont 2.98; year, $4.00, in th: per —_— 1088 tor Daredevil Daugherty We have been so busy shuddering since we read the sh of Attorney General Daugherty out in Ohio, that oul tated fingers have just calmed down to the point % one trusted to find the keyboard. > Tt seems our country has had a very, VERY narrow iP Our lives have been in great danger, our gov- tt has been tottering on the brink of destruction; civil war has been fought and Daugherty has won it, all while we went about our business blithely ignorant the perils lurking about us. You recall the recent railway shopmen’s strike, of rse; and Daugherty'’s Chicago injunction. You thought was “just another strike,” and “just another injunc- a bit drastic and all, but, after all, you probably lose much sleep over it. Now Daugherty tells you wrong you were. Says he: Fae Wetns saackioe And plllerie@ te cvorn. . . .Genrcsty i tile brand, treo tnnd wae being spared the fren heel i Depredation of property was in full swing and human fe wae anything but sacred. The vation was in the grip of ‘war, of the vilest types, apostien of the ultrared . . . and missionaries of discord mingled tn the attack upon ty, law and government. when all conciliatory efforte on the part of trusted govern emissarics had failed . . . when human suffering and hardships beginning to leave their impress upon the innocent and helpless . «+ and when the country was stung t fury, the time had when Daugherty could st2y his hand no longer.” He would ws. And he did. He did it with his injunction. The situa- M was saved. The country was saved. You were The government was saved. Everybody was Save In his ringing (if borrowed) words: “God reigns ud the government at Washington still lives.” was wonderful! And just as we were figuring on it would be the best way to express our appreciation this new Horatio, along comes Sam Gompers, of the . F. of L., with this disquieting thought: limely ridiculous!” snys he. “This speech makes ting to classify Mr. Daugherty as one of those ‘ir- sible agitators’ about which we hear so much ” rom him. And now we don’t know what to do. o river, which she makes to run up stream. It goes into the Illinois, and down the Mississippi, carrying p's sewage. ‘Not only other lake-ports, but Canada {s interested this; for every gallon of water taken from the lake Chicago makes the border rivers and the St. Lawrence 0 much lower, pbably this diversion of the water by Chicago lowers levels of all the lakes except Superior and Erie between six inches and a foot. now Dean Hayford, of Northwestern, has shown because of the lack of water in harbors, every Ut of a foot subtracted from the harbor depths causes ‘snnual loss of revenue to ship-owners of $590,000 a - This loss, of course, is charged up to traffie, and country pays it in higher cost of living. If Chicago’s diversion of water lowers the lake levels inches, it costs the country at Jarge something like 530,000,000 a year. This is what the country chips in to Chicago to maintain what is a crime in itself—the ution of streams and the wasting of hundreds of ns of good fertilizer. ‘Way down scuth in the land of cotton the crop fs good but the price is 4 noll Labor’s Leisure Hours test engineering body in America condemns workday in steel and other industries. This it compliment to the wisdom of the labor unions, it comes from the highest outside source. We are going to the eight-hour day soon. And the for labor to do is to study the problem of what do with this new leisure. It is a vital problem. So » millions of our laboring men have not solved it in way compatible with their own or the nation’s or 's real welfare. |, And the proper use of that time might mean much -to a staggering world. A year on Mercury {s only 88 days long, making Halloween come every The in ny _ Grasshopper glands might be a great help to football players, set in the Swim! in income ¢axes on profits realized in 1917, The big LETTER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Folks: In starting out I wish to quote a verses rome other dumbbell wrote—“"Thirsty days hath September, April, June and November. an the rest are thirsty, too, unless you make your own home ew." I must admit I've always found, in theory, his verse ts sound: but when we turn from liquor acts and very fairly face the facts, it seems to my observing eye, we're not as yet Sahara dry. For in the town, am I've been told, three million pounds of @rapes were sold, and here's the further fact to meet—they're not the kind of grapes you cat—they’'re grapes that dealers ail define i as only good for making wine! | And every day we read the news of confiscated stores of boone: but still the paper never shows @ lino concerning where it goes No matter where the stuff ts placed, I bet {t doesn't go to waste! Of course, the item strikes my eye that U. 8. ships are going Gry. I think they merely mean to gay, arid as the U. 8. A.”—~ which wouldn't really bother me if I should ever go to sea. For even yet there's quite enough of every kind of bootleg stuff; end s0, as I have long surmised, the quoted verse should be re. vined to “all the rest are wet and nice, for any guy who has the cddihing ini Cinglcdienaihonaam ted tone ome reer THE SEATTLE STAR a check, say, for $200,000, which they paid. They filed a brief showing why not be paid. the $300,000 balance should Of the hundreds of poorly-paid income tax bureau men one was assigned to prepare a reply to the high- salaried accountant's brief. That took some months. Then a “conference, asked permission to file another brief. That ended, the accountant Another inter- lude; another reply; eventually another conference, and more permissions to file additional briefs, GETTING READY FOR THE BIG SHOW Defends People Editor The Star: Who Don’t Vote & majority as this and yet they took 1 have bean reading tn the Papers | their seats, And yet from the mayor quite @ bit about the vote slacker. My first vote was cast for the late Wiliam MoKiniey. I have voted most every election since that time, when it was possible for me to get to the polla One of the Sunday papers stated that about half of the registered voters did not vote at the reason. voting just for the purpose of making jobs for politiclana, For instance, In the case of the King County Humane society. These people won the pound by over 6, votes. The politicians that won at the same election did not get as big Editor The Star: I have long been @ reader of your valuable paper, and while we agree on most public questions, there are some on which we don't, particular- ly the Japanese controversy. Why thene people should be bound- e4, villified, slandered and misrepre- sented by The Star, our Hon, Mr. Tindall and others, ,ls past my com- prehension. Of coure, it is not hard }to understand Mr. Tindall’s rabid newspaper attacks, he expects to ride into congress on the back of this Japaneses question, but he won't. I have lived tn Seattle over 20 years, have lived among these peo- ple, and have had good opportunity to study and observe them tn their daily lives, If there are any more honest, tn- down they have all refused to turn over the pound. Where do these 9,000 people come In? And we may mention the street car fare and the 90 days, And a whole lot more cam- paign bunk. ‘These are some of the reasons why last primary election. There ts 4 | people are sick of spending time and People are getting sick of | money to go to the polls, When these; | politictans show the people that they have been elected to serve the peo ple and do It, then all the voters will 60 to the potle, I will eay that it ts the politician that ts the slacker and hot the voter, PAUL GARREW. Thinks Japanese Good People d@ustrious, progressive and law-abtd- ing people coming to our shores than |the Japanese I want to know who | they are. The Jap is @ equare shooter and will always try to give you en even break in any kind of « deal. In an article tn @ recent Star, | signed by Mr, Leadbrooke, he clearty jshows his hatred for these people. The Star, Mr. Tindall, -Mr, Lead- brooke and others, seem to be unduly | exercised over the fact that the Japs | own some truck farms, a fow grocery stores, some laundries and drug stores. Don’t strain at a gnat and ewallow @ camel, Yours for fair play, Cc, 1. RIDDLE, S0T Maynard Ave A “Missourian.” Hart’s Board Proposed 30-10 Editor The Star: Gov. Hart's very Inststent demand that the voters turn down Initiative |No, 4, the echoot equality measure, }bring to mind the fact that the 30. 10 idea wae first proposed by the public school code commisison ap. pointed by Gov. Hart to report a bill for the reorganization of the school system. Senate Bill No. 10, introduced by Editor The Star: I thought out the following poem and thought I ought to have it pub- | lished. 1 will be very glad if you will publish it for me, If you can not do this, will you kindly tell me | why? Yours truly, SYDNEY HALLAM. | ous | HEAVEN ON EARTH | There’s no such thing as Hate—only Love, |In the wonderful story of heaven / above, Where the sun shines brightly all day long, | And the harpers play sweetly many @ wong, | waltor The Star: | We read the tirade against the |good works, by one M. Monroe. {And I hasten to anmure L. M. Clarke that many people who, recognizing ithe fact that bia letters to the va- \rious newspapers of this city are often of much greater worth than lmany of the editorials which appear |from time to time, often buy a |paper on the strength of hearing | that it contains a letter from L. M Clarke, Thus in Oregon and Call. |fornia ft fa not surprising that L. |M. Clarke {s sometimes mentioned, for people like to clip the best in @ paper and send it along in a let ter, L. M, Clarke has surely a } Senator Sutton, was tho result, and) came to Its defent by one vote. Sen- ator Sutton and three of the four oth- er members of the commission, Al fred Lister of Tacoma, A. 8. Burrows of Seattle and W. M. Kern of Walla Walla, are «tanch supporters of In- | Itlative No. 46. MRS. F.C. HIGGLEY, President King County Branch, Par. ent-Teacher Association. Heaven on Earth An in the days of young and ol4, When all knights errant were ex: ceedingly bold, | The solstice of summer which refgns supreme, Fills many @ poet with @ new-found theme, Wil the loss of Hate bring Love galore, And make the earth heaven, as of years before? For would {t not a# heaven ba, If each lived his life properly? ‘Would we not have a better life, If we lived tn good wil! and not tn strife? SYDNEY W. MALLAM, age 15. | Thinks L. M. Clarke Is Right way of stating the truth that reaches home. Even the hunters in the last instance felt the sting of that truth, M. Monroo, you can’t get a sob out of us by reciting the hardships of hunters. To that I reply in your own language, “Bunk!” Why can't you enjoy the woods tn their natural beauty, withdut turning them Into slaughter houses? ‘That hunters aro law breakers is proven every morning and evening that we take up & newspaper during the hunting season. The law gives Nttle enough protection to the crea turea of the woods, but even that small protection ts broken, ‘The ATE ITE SAO aaah 2: FRO TEMES: So on, year in and year out, until today more than $1,000,000,000 In taxes, or one-third the total annual federal tax budget, is unpaid. This condition in the income tax division, with the staff snowed under by briefs and protests against taxes, has led a number of senators and congressmen to demand that the books be opened to the public. They are not public now Everything is confiden- tlal, and the taxpayer who evades back taxes is pro- | | | beautiful | them |#warm of blue bottle fies feasting jon the blood from ite wound. 1 sophie eelaeecanaenaied MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922 Evade Your Back Taxes! Everybody (Rich) Is Doing It tected in his activities by the veil of secrecy thrown by law about the treasury’s work. A last word—a word of warning. If you're think ing of evading federal taxes, make it a big tax. A fellow begged to differ with the income tax bureau over $1.28 the other day. He did not. Did he evade it? He was jerked up summarily with a notice to pay by a certain very early date, or his property would be attached and sold—for the $1.28. SCIENCE Dye Living Cella. Aid to Research, Study Life Secrets. Old Way Cumbersome. Bclentists are now dyeing the tn- nermost recesses of ving cells. All plants and animals ere com posed of little cella, Formerly, for the purpose of studying these cells, | the plant or antmal was killed, and the cells, thru @ long process of em- balming, imbedded tn paraffin wax. | This product was then placed tn a) wonderful machine that out It into strips as thin as one-fifty-thousandth of an inch, These strips were then mounted on glass, the paraffin dis | solved and the Internal structure dyed, #0 as to be easily seen under « microscope, Work i» now betng done with aif. ferent dyes for the purpors of stain. tog the celle without killing them. = | ‘The result of that may mean great | progrens in studying the secret of ita | prefer to watch the deer in their than see) fight rather dead at thelr feet, with a You know the casualties if you read the papers. In every estate in the unton the toll & confession to the lawlessness of men who | think it proves them brave to run | loose with a gun. In a paper from | Portiand, but @ few days old, 1! read, 4.” All the killings are the result of | bunting and hunters, Another pa- | per reads, “Two Killed, Another |} Expected to Die"-—that's another | day. There are other ¢ays and other towns, 1, too, admire the beautiful pose But again you but twist it to your Geatre to kill. law enya you can shoot only ceri ing tnto the woods tn a frienfly tain kinds of deer. Docs the hunter pause to eee) never found before. The birds will | Nine cases out sing for you, they As every paper| The deer will lopa shows, he aime and shoots at) will come to wish anything unlucky enough to move/ehot @ thing, what he sime at? of ten be does not. before his eyes, including other hunters and innocent people who Clarke Congratulates Jane Barr Eéitor The Star: Jane Barr ts to be congratulated on her very able article tn regard to referendum No. 18 Thg voters will | in a tow days decide thin matter, I wonder if they will ask themacives: “Now, who ts going to profit by this | laeal, the doctors personally and the| leult to which they belong, or the jehildren and parents?” Tt seems o44 that this extremely altruistic and sudden interest in the public welfare should manifest fteclf chiefly if not solely tn regard to the public schocla, Is it because they know the children are compelled by law to attend school, and if while there they are forced to submit to |medical supervision, the medical body has @ very large part of the state's population right where ft wants it—under its thumb? If the parents haven't senes enough to safeguard the health of thetr children, whom they love, have they eonse enough to look after their own physical state? If arbitrary con- trol is demanded {n one case, why fot in the other? Why not also com- pol supervision for postal employes, telephone operators, police forea, fire- men, factory hands, department stores, oto, any and every group of persons which can be handled as a group? Prayer for the Hunters Editor The Star: In your letter column, Frank R Atking gives us the names of some great men who, he says, were fond of hunting. As Ring Lardner would my: “All great men suffer from bad faults in ‘om, just the same an ts common fotka, and it ain't just nice to advertise these here faults so much.” I've seen some of these exhibits of stuffed products of South African | and other hunts, and I admit that | in nome ways a natural museum ta | aw interesting a morgue as you ean find, espectally w you study oste. opathy and chiropractics and are in- trigued by bones espectally; but It ts certainly a mighty poor advertise ment for the character of the person who killed them, It must be awful to be an animal; with the doctors cutting them up while they are altve —when sald medicos already know what the results are, or could find out by Treading in medical books— and being chased by huntera, or else hauled to the abattoir, I notice that Mr, Atkins put In a prayer in his, #0 I'll put one tn, too, to prove that nonsportsmen can pray, too: ake me an understanding sou}, at I may have sympathy and char. ity for those at the mercy of my greater advantage. Give me the de- sire to bring happiness wherever I may wander, Give me the eye to see, the soul to appreciate the won der and beauty of nature, as God gives it, and never, oh, never, let mo Iny © hand of destruction upon His gifts, Give me hope that the bird tn the woods, the deer In the forest, that all helpless things, wild or tame, may enjoy life, unmolested by men who| are made in the Image and Mkeness | of Him who wag all mercy, even un to the leas G. B, Here's hoping, |i" achieved. It would be the senal- spirit; you wll find something you will My for you. for you and you you never bad Bincerety, 1, BOUCHER. ‘When any one person, or group, or class, starts tn to arbitrarily infringe Upon another's rights, there is no stopping untfl complete subjugation bie thing not to allow any 1: iment in the first place, We alreaty have ample laws, Properly tnforced, foverning quarantine, contagious Burn Roslyn Queen Coal in the Range w CITY Ich & COLD sTOR Shitshole Ave. §: FUR Ly x. 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