The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1922, Page 6

New: . out of Gitmai Hon Francivee of flee, Monadnock bide New York office, Canadian Where Smith-McNary Bill Stands Advices from Washington are to the effect that it is "not going to be easy to get the Smith-McNary bill thru > the coming session of congress. . Many arguments against the bill are advanced, but the one that appears to be most effective is the cry for “economy.” The principal argument that has been advanced for the passage of this bill has been the immediate need for ex- tensive reclamation. This has given rise to a popular belief that the Smith-McNary bill will require large ex- penditures of money immediately for this purpose. As @ matter of fact that bill merely establishes a national reclamation policy. It makes no appropriation. Such ap- propriations are to be made only when it is desired to put this policy into effect. ‘Under the policy that would be established, reclama- tion could be carried on as rapidly or as slowly as de- sired or could be halted altogether. Appropriations could be made only in accordance with economic demands. A large majority in congress is now favorable to the e of the bill, but the popular misapprehension may prevent its being brought up for consideration. Such seems to be the present outlook. Under the circumstances, it is up to the whole West to unite on a policy of education of Easterners to the facts. The East as well as the West needs the good that will flow from the reclamation program, and the sooner the East finds it out, the better off the whole country will be. else for. We can't imagine where the ex-kalser will go for his honeymoon, - ‘Too much money makes you unhappy—H a neighbor has it. Girts who wear what they choose seldom choose enough. Leading a double life gets you thru just twice as quick. Gentle Art of Tax Dodging i man Frear fears that some of the recent big _ stock dividends may be tax-dodging schemes. He writes Mellon regarding section 220 of the 1921 rev- Ss act, “which provides methods for reaching holders | of surplus held for the purpose of escaping taxation.” ' Bookkeeping has become one of the fine arts. For instance, a certain rich man took $100,000 and bought 00 shares of stock at their par value of $100 each. this happened in 1919. During one of the 1921 stock market slumps, the of this stock dropped to $40 a share. So the man sold his holdings, losing $60 a share, or a total <a “wrote off” this $60,000 as a loss in making out income tax return. This enabled him to dodge pay- income tax on $60,000 of his 1921 income. “loss,” however, was all on paper, for he no sooner the stock than he bought it back at the same price. keep within the law, he could not buy back until 30 days after the sale, sc he bought in his wife’s name, the be transferred to him later. Thus he was out pocket nothing except a small commission to the it stock is on his books at $40,000. Later, _ if he sells it for $100,000, he'll realize a profit of $60,000 ' and have to pay income tax on it. But he doesn’t intend to sell. When he does, the income tax rate probably will be much lower than now. $3 z 7 it? You cannot. Neither can Uncle Sam. high art of tax dodging, of which the above is a is possible because, as* lawyers say, “every law loophole.” The loophole is there because lawyers laws. indamental, as a cause, is the American court of haggling over technicalities instead of in- ing a law at ‘ts plain and intended meaning. York detective brags about the crooks he has caught. Look at the he had to pick from. have arrested a Texas telephone girl because the two husbands were her own. man gets shot when, If rich, he would only have been sued for HH ir i) i i I Three Types ot News Russel! Everett Smith was kidnaped by Gypsies in April, 1919, when he was four years old. Now he is returned to his mother in La Grange, Me., thanks to information furnished by a wandering peddler. The reunion brings great rejoicing, shouts, cheers, cele- brations, tears, excitement. Wild explosions of rage among the neighbors, when the Smith boy tells of the cruelty he experienced. _ perfect type of emotional news. @ From emotional news you turn to another type of hap- i ings in this life—intellectual news, brought to its Rignest degree in scientific research. . Ashton, celebrated British scientist, discusses his conviction that a man is made entirely of electricity. This is the Rutherford doctrine, that the atoms of matter are mérely different combinations of electricity. Dr. Ashton predicts a day when man will unlock the gigantic power stored in the atom, make it do his work. ‘How small is an atom? Ashton says. “If a tiny hole were made in the side of an evacuated electric light bulb, 80 that the molecules of air could pass in at a rate of 1,000,000 a second, it would take 100,000,000 years before the bulb was full, and there are two atoms in each mole- eule of air.” rom emotional and intellectual news you turn to something harder to define. A good name for it would be “controversial happenings.” A sample: Prohibition has cost America a loss of $1,702,000,000 since 1919, in revenue that might have been derived from the sale of liquor if the saloons had been left wide open. The estimate is made in the Wall Street Journal. Wets will point to. what the government has lost. Drys will point to what drinkers have saved. Emotions, intellect and controversy—these are the three great forces that animate men and women, that create news. Usually they work in combinations, We refuse to cancel Europe's war debis and the A oad aoe * an American Legion Polive found a missing Buffalo boy asleep under the sink. H have been playing plumber. saad All the ising’s horses and all the king’s men can't get orde eeain. er in England “Work or Fight” was the war slogan and now we are doing both Health hint: Never go hunting with an enemy. LETTERS 2 EWUTOR | Raltor The Star Just hire cars,” |body, please don’t try to take them | them, and thin Jaway from their present parking | quickly, how in heaven's nam [places. As I understand, it's trying | the driver walk a mile or more to often will give three cheers for something they wouldn't give | oices If the average person knew | tice to himself and the public? Why [the “grief and expense” there ts in| it simply can't be done. Starvation operating one, there would be no! would be the result objection to where they should stand, | Editor The Star As @ result of extensive inquiry|to the people, as herein provided, | Jand @ thoro digging into the conatl | sha: \tution, I have discovered that if only |x approved by © majority of the one-third or lens of the total vote cast | votes cast thereon, provided that the at the Noven measures, the initiative will fail and Editor The Star |} It # not my intention to criticixe @| buy a shirt before he goes to one of fellow reader, but my opinion of this these low.down places passion. This te why it dance hall bunk i this | “But a man makes his own money,| tho in England the party of labor| mad.” I believe that a man who wants to/eo let him judge the best way to fo to a dance hall like the halls you spend it and let other people keep | forty of the Hritism labor party’ are talking about in the lower end| their noses to themacives.” —- of the city should go if he has no; And the shirt man will not get more nense And I think the mayor is right! Taxpayer™ when he anys it is a benefit to the think twice. If not, let him alone| Parent- Taxpayers’ | Mannel.shirt man, because if a man‘ suffer. RAY C. FREEMAN "25 countion Each Mother Must Make Decision Editor The Star: The following explanation ts made | comion they haw personally pledged with the consent of the executive! board of the Seattle council of Pag. | ‘hemacives to the active support of/ It will tnerease school taxes at/more to those districts that do not this measure, Inant $4,000,000 annually. ent Teacher ansociations: Initiative Measure No. 46, of 3S An president of the Seattle counctt| it wt 0,” was adopted the board | Of Parent-Teacher associatic am veetink ul of the washitgion state |in a position to observe the warlocs| tf achools are afforded for children | extravagant. branch of the National Congress of activities of our affiliated circles; |!" those districts. | Mothers and Parent-Teacher ansoct-| nevertheless, I am not in possession) it will drain money from rural) |ations, at Bellingham, in October. /f a singie program of any of our legislative committee | sonal pledging in support of this ‘This being an initiative measure, | measure. | the lay workers thruout the state! Consequently, are not sweeping| were constrained to feel that their | statements featuring our band of loyalty to the organization obligated | more than 10,000 members working them to obtain the necessary petition |as a unit in favor of this measure signatures, thereby bringing the | most misleading and unfair? measure before the voters in No-| Our organization number vember mately 25,000 in thin great state of Our 70-044 Seattle circles recetved | Washington, each quietly and loyal their allotted petitions last spring. |ly serving wherever she finds her nomber of signatures volunteers circulated petitions before | ter the arena of politica |deiving into the merits or demerits was present at thin seasion, j The statement hag been made that | victions, jhardly believe we have about 10,000 members in MRS. A. G. GREENSTREET. |ompletely revolutionized since that Editor The Star: Very many of the American friends of Lioyd George, the famous regret his recent sudden resignation | 1 Roroge: 4 lof office. They speak of his unex om is & question vital to|May tn bo: co o ent as an instance of ade ‘abd, oagratats electorate, |", when Lioyd George speaks for and discipline inside the penitentiary “How son,” they ery, “does a dem) ocracy forget its best servants and friends! Lioyd George has had a grand record as a statesman, especially | during the recent war. And he has jalways claimed to be a friend of a fickle and All this has the makings of a heart-throb book. It is a chief of the coalition government of both liberals and conservatives, should be a coalition president of the combined republican and demo-) cratic parties. | Lioyd George has been riding two horses, bareback, and both unruly |weeks ago Lloyd George angered Jand alarmed the friends of consti- | tutional freedom in India, He made @ speech in England in which he raid that England intended to keep | India under the contro! of the Eng-! |lish civil service bureaucracy, This} speech was a sop to the die-hard] conservative interests in England Few Americans observed this speech at all. Yet it was this one} epeech that was, and is, the secret jand underlying cause of the defeat of Lloyd George. In 1917-18 Lioyd| nee ea mas sb ga | George promised Indio the same| jfreedom as Canada and Australia| India would aid the aliles in| Mesopotamia. India accepted this| proffered contract The present king of England and jhis heir, the prince of Wales, have as the settled policy of Great Brit- ain toward India, Japan, tho Ort ental and buddhist, is free, and a} |power of the first magnitude, In-| promise, | LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN Dear Folks gone and passed away, with all ite joys and ills; and hiy bills, ‘There’® quite few I can't forget, and some I can't remember—but since I haven't got them yet, I'm glad to greet November. November's quite a month to look for gustatory treats (and wustatory,” says the book, is what pertains to “eats”, Or, in the words of hol pollot, it's quite the cat's meow for handing out a Jot of joy in autumn's line of chow Wor that's the month of pumpkin pie, the manth of groume and quail; when rosy apples greet the eye, and older still te frail. And Himmte «gladly chops the wood to get an appetite—because he knows there's something good at dinnertime tonight Hut with the other kids and 1, the best it bring» around te what the butcher lets us buy at sixty cents a pound; for gloom begins to fade away, and spirits start to climb, with thoughts of old Thanksgiving day, and turkeydinner time. Hut yet It often seems to ma, with all the months we've got there's something good that we can see in all the blooming lot And 80, as #easons pan away, and others make their bow, we find that, all along life's way, the finest time is Now Pleads for Cab Drivers ) 1 am @ mother and personally plea in defense of the “for |) know there are children fed and/ To the dissatiafied some. | clothed and ¢ Idiers employed by | if a car, wag called ould be done, and park them in| some garage for his car and do jum MRS. JOHNSTON Don’t Overlook Initiatives initiated by the people or referred THE LOST RUDDER SCIENCE Blood Tests. Theory in Di Parentage Index. Used in Legal Cases. ‘eof ATI All human beings are divi according to the s of their blood. ‘Thin recently interesting but y of proving the blood testa of the child and the will prove or 4 been used in neve” Establishment of | practice ts bee ing opposed, on the grounds that if will belong to the name “blood group of the theory claim that a child might inherit the blood chars these did not show in the parent building crowded no school facilities trict being up to its limit in bonded J indebtednews, using up income from the state ne school officials ll were determined that these children, future relian lack an education. district at a low figure, tran: thru the efforts of county superintendent and his 4 who devoted thelr spare ti Sundays and jon Saturdays evenings to the work determined effortal |to provide school facilities for th |children by labor donated from leitizens, and thus were enabled [wet the buildings up and furni take effect and become law if it | -———— per election registers! volo cast on mu the tnitiative and referendum | tion shall equal h measure or ques This Man Agrees With Brown | populartty. fleeced out of his money, ax “The | jthru their | Seattio alone, and almost without ex. | «rounds thru recommendation of the/ circles containing a record of per. lous centers, the state proxi. thra volunteer workers, suc-| self. It ien't posible—and we would wan | time. [of our blood. They are rather of the same blood as tne ) premier of England, deeply | t* Ted N. A. Indians. Who shall onions that the U. 8. Hence, as American citi-| Produce Co.” j being about $960. The district will be about §: maintaining these and this amount will hat to be raised by local contribut! members of parliament are unpaid |or English‘ functions were all attended to by th “Wesleyan Methodist" church. They |captain of the guards without the | warden being present at the time. “Warden Pace has organized every says Le Roy.| reorganized some depart would be nearer a Pace became warden on Prior to that time »/ali departments had been organized and were running when However, if Le Roy wishes to give Pace credit for cutting down on the quantity, quality and variety ot food after April 1 I will not deny the continued siavery of India, must Justify and applaud his sudden Civilization ts ‘ne-third of the totay | 8nd puzaling defeat of economics. They know what hunger and pov- erty are by experience, Yoten cast at much election, and not|in the balance, referendum carry. A section | otherwise, lhour than the present |trom referendum amendment to} The people should be arouned. jthe constitution «ays: “Any measure Unionville house 47 ana 41 chiid | respectively, who are taught by t teachers with small |who consider not the least part , their reward ts foune tn the enthi jsiastic attention and gratitude the boys and girls under their 4 deen seen for the last 10,000 ye GRORGE N. HODGDON Daniel Webster to the Southern slaveholders and in one hour lost all his overwhelming ‘The seventy mil- lions of Japan will be ax in @ world war before the three hun million freemen of India “Whom the gods would destroy, |the sagen say of dethroned staten- “they first make Lioyd George may now med-| this proverb. OLIVER CROMWELL. April 1 this year [will only think twice he will go and | freedom. Unknowingty, he arrayed himself against the gods of com The remedy for this deplo situation, unworthy of the state | Washington, is offered by the ion of the 30-10 measure, spo y the State Parent-Teachers’ ciation and the Washington Edi tional association, which will app November 7, as lative No. 46, and which prov’ men and kings, jin soon to come into office. Over |itate upon | Warden Pace can doubtless be given jeredit for is that of denying the in. mates the privilege of speaking to him during working hours as they had been in the habit of doing with | for equalization of school funds the previous warden. who know Le Roy w |recognize his letter as one more at the |tempt on his part to gain his free-jothers, would have adequate fur dom thru the action of the pardle/to maintain its schools in F board by currying favor with the/with Washington standards, and to Tt ‘to undemocratic, as it Gives! ison officials. A year ago be wrote| raise its children, the tateral a and had printed a pamphrt praising |future citizens and parents in the the prison and its officials very|state, as worthy types or n highly. The attempt to gain his free-|and womanhood. Newcastle is an example of a Argues Against Number 13 money for build id last night, if be will! Editor The Star ] ansociations of ings. It provides no standard of educa- Under 30.10 the Neweastle district, nounee opposition to the “30-10” bill, Initiative No. 4t repeals the present “barefoot” on the following! bonus, credits for privaté school at- |tendance without It will not equalize educational | voters. | opportunity In the state, Reed more and takes more from dis lop progress of consolida- | tricts that cannot pay more. tion fn rural districts, whereby bet) It is unjust, inequitable, unfair, dom is laudable and I would not will- ingly place a single obstacle in his/district with a large number It is supported by a campaign fund of $10,000, contributed by those way to that end. But his very|school children, which would who alone will profit from the ex.|*nxiety to gain his freedom is quite/fit by the provi nadie higher |f00d proof of the vile conditions inj be assured adequate funds to care of the requirements of educa- ~ districta that cannot af‘ord to pay more to help maintain school systema tra millions collected in the more popu-|salaried leaders of the Washington |the penitentiary Educational association), a dues pay-| ing group of teachers. The parenttaxpayers of the state! more than they pay into the state| urge that all voters vote no on Ini- | tuna and this $1,387,190 will have|tiative No. 46. | to come from the rural sections of If Le Roy's letter has the effect | ton. CITIZENS’ 30.10 COMMITTEB. It will give the 60 largest cities the state $1,987,120) § 8. Fes of sidetracking, even for a day, the wholesome regeneration of the Walla Walla penitentiary, he is simply at- tempting to free himself by stepping on the necks of other inmates. be some years, perhaps some generations, before humanity will abolish penal institutions. ttl that very desirable day arrives every decent citizen of should do his utmost to have the in- i the penitentiary treated I am certain that Le Roy cannot|with humane consideration. was, jletters as Le Roy's give the smugly hypocritical a chance to ease their! consciences with a feeling that “all's |ff Cc. E. PAYNE, Ruby, Wash. and towns of FRANK FURBER, Ravenna Bivd a BRST Says Warden Doesn't were concerned, Pace was not “actual managing head” two months Editor The Star: ceeded in obtaining the requisite | never wish it to be possibie—that we In The Star of October 20 appeared Many of the|can alt be of one mind when we en. & letter from Jean Henri Le Roy, }4110, of the Walla Walla state pent. Your dealer has a spe- cially prepared Furnace Fuel that is 50% lump, in just the right pro- portions to give you re- markable high ciency, in your furnace, at a very low cost. The y Saver name & single | Each mother must decide this mat |teotiary. The article in very laud. lof the measure, they were for it! ter for herself, and not feel bound or Story of the work and character of whole-heartedly, whether they under. shackled in any way by her organiza. |t@ warden, John W. stood it or not, because sponsored by | tion. The thought should be ever! The letter appears to be an at. the board of managers of the state | before us thal in no sense are we dis. tempt at a reply to the series of board, probably very few knowing | loyal to our cause when we retain |@fticles I wrote for The Star in the that a bare quorum of 16 members, | the rights and privileges of an Amer. |!#tter part of September. a small minority of the entire board, | ican citizen to vote on this and every | eased from | measure in accordance with our con. September 6 thin year and I can the place has been to September 6 thin year, assigned to work of any kind by Pace, or sentenced by him to be confined in the dungeon or solitary How 30-10 Would Oper plorable lack of adequate facilities That little children of tender years| for education of boys and girls, Re. cently, because of the coal miners’ strike, a new town, Unionville, was short distance away, house the families of strikers. Their former homes were filled with the new families working in the mines, the old school practically Editor The Star: touchingly grateful | meager facilities for education which | eo ene . . [the great state of Washington of. Civilization in the Balance |ty anduite ackgel ianeging head” So| fore to seme. of Me. future eftienss| [under the present system of school is strikingly evidenced in Le Roy says “he (Pace) ts distinct. far as the financial part of the tnati tution is concerned, yes. Chinese and be the logical place to settle for the| the situation | rural districts, expecially in the lit | tle town of Newcastle, in King coun: within an) hour's reach of Se-| found there was no room tn the old |schoo! building, and there were 87, In this town, where the citizens) school children at Unionville to be. the | taken care of! Thi hold the balance of power in the) Walla on the penitentiary truck last “Walla Walla So far as the routine officials of district had a have-nots, He has just now cast out of the position of By Berton Braley ("Shall I sing you a commonplace song y™ sing us @ commonplace song Of Ife as tt ambles along, A song that will carry A Singling refrain That ‘Tom, Dick and Harry And Mary and Jans as Harding would be if he pulling apart. Just «a few Sing us a commonplace had us & commonplace song, Some sort of a ditty With power to charm The folks of the city Sing un a commonplace song | 08, sing us @ commonplace song recently repeated this promise With doggere! meter And notes that are few, will soon overtop Japan and| the Orient, in place of the ban. apan, if she be given the stat. @ British dominion, in fulfin. | of England's sacred war For me and for you leaders of India are Aryans, | we. The Japanese are not It won't be a commonplace song! (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star. A COMMONPLACE SONG ~|development of one of the state's! valuation of only $158,000 on which resources, coal, there is a de-!to educate 225 children, with the Sa 1 lear lo the Points Thelittle screw that holds Wiss Scissor blades to- ther is accurate to the t andth part of an inch; it won’t work loose. That's one reason why Wiss Scissors don’t wabble or spread agg They cut, ¢ very ts; and stay sharp. aay Get a pair of Wiss Manicure and Nail Scissors. moet serviceable mi: Either Style $1.20 a pair assures you of consist- ently high quality. The results that a trial of this coal in your own furnace will will convince that It Will Lower Your Coal Bills When you order your next load of fuel, tell your dealer to throw on a sack of Cassidy Furnace Coal, and try it out From a poem.) Can whistle and hum as they work and they play, From commonplace day unto commonplace day, A song for the plodding and hardworking throng, A tune that ts hard to get wrong, Telephone your dealer and he will give you full particu- lars—or call the ARROW COALCO. | F.C.FERREE , President 4400 Fourteenth Ave.NW. A commonplace ballad that somehow contrives To bring some romance into commonplace lives, To giadden the hearts of the weak or the stron, Sale Wherever > fe, Fe ‘or Whi Which just sort of ripples along, Rut which makes life sweeter Nel Sieg No 609% A tinkly and lightsaome and lyrical lay And if you can @ing such a thing to the throng,