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

The Seattle Star paper Enterprise Acseaia! ‘United Press ‘Br ‘mat, Everveiee Aveimemtha thie, e month, ttt) year r Outside of the state, S60 per month year, By carrion, city, Woe month, Ruthmen, Special B tativen, Chicago. fone, blae.t New «bide. Franctoce York Vote “Yes” to Kill Poll Tax The poll tax is a vicious, unjust law, That fs now ny conceded. It is highly inefficient. The first year it took money out of the men on the payrolls but failed to reach the and the floaters it was advertised as designed to make pay. This year it has produced only half as much as in 1921. It is going to be killed forever in the state of Washing- ‘ton; that is as certain as any political forecast can be. When you vote ‘on the measure (Initiative No. 40) next , the chief point to bear in mind is that it is a bill to REPEAL the present law. § ‘A “Yes” vote is a vote to repeal, to kill the poll tax. the driver of » Standard Off truck caught a deer that iilas been shot tire the leg and took It to a doctor, who is treating tts lim>. This is contrary te Hoyle, The truck driver should have the poor thing and bragged about It. But, maybe, after being up, the deer will be let loose, so that some fellow can satisfy his for killing things. pure all things are pure, but te the simple all things are not Referendum No. 12 dum No. 12, which is to be voted on next Tues- pete for the issuance by the state of “certifi- ‘cates of necessity and convenience” to such public service corporations as propose to invade any territory served by similar companies. The idea is not new, having been introduced by Gov. in Wisconsin 15 years or more ago, and by Hiram Johnson in California in 1911 as means of closely regulating the corporation activities. The is now in effect in more than half of the states. The law is designed to prevent duplication of plant and tment for which consumers are certain to pay. It not, however, guarantee any company against com- Htion, as certificates are supposed to be issued upon t whenever an established concern is failing to properly its public. It does tend eed a regulated monopoly of public ces. This fact has led to vigorous attacks upon the n in this state in the past and, in some degree, this r. On the other hand, it is argued by some clear- inded that such monopolies, properly regu- d, are the most economical and satisfactory solution Such arguments as have been advanced against obama based rather on‘a fear that if enacted ‘would not be fairly administered by the present state inistration than on defects in the bill itself. will want to read it. LETTERS EDITOR : Thinks Plea Editor The Star: If anybody is unthinking enough to believe the propaganda of the school teachers that the 30-10 bill ts bot going to raise taxes, I Just ask two questions. Their campaign iterature anys the Inconsistent need any more money? they have now? FRANK HANLON, Scores Police Court Editor The Star: Judge Griffith made a wise and/sary to perpetuate the graft. Patriotic suggestion when he pro- Posed the ahplition of the police court, for this is the protected graft that fille Seattie with bootlegging and other lawlenaneas Tt is not a court of record, I am told. In fact, tt te not « court at all, but @ private sinecure, maintained by the taxpayers to menace the com- munity; because it ts here the boot- logger and thief dicker and bargain | for the privilege. And should you be so unfortunate as to have this knowledge the czar of the underworld will set his erim- inals to prey upon you to keep you from “talking.” This may explain the unsolved murder mysteries shaming this com- munity, Only dead men tell no tales, In this alleged court the law tn net aside, verdicts are also judiciously breaking. “protected” an the police court, have valua Bread Line and You you removed from the bread line? If lost your job and your income were entirely cut off, many years, months or weeks would it be before you charity? a, Sa are making loans to about 2,000- a year. At the annual convention of the heads they tell two interesting things about who come to them for money: FIRST: the average loan of $186, tho some loans run as high as $5,000, as low as $50. SECOND: Three-fourths of the borrowers have no y, are unable to furnish security. They have to responsible people to “go good” for them by indorse- From people who borrow small sums from banks, we to another class. You meet them right along—try- to raise loans among their friends. ; office or shop of any size has at least one per- gon who is always a certain amount of money behind the game. It may be 50 cents or $5 or some other sum. Whatever it is, it seems to be the improvident one’s “borrowing capacity.” This fellow is chronically $5 or 50 cents behind the game—just that much removed from the bread line. One of the great financial mysteries is why he doesn’t man- age to get $5 or 50 cents ahead of the game, so he can borrow from himself instead of his friends. Borrowing small sums or cups of flour becomes a habit. A certain number of unfortunates are driven to borrow- ing from their friends, by sheer bad luck. The chronic er, however, is usually a plain,.old-fashioned speci- the official he “fixed” to the pen? over for “holding me they may have been able to get would keep him from talking. MRS. FRANK J, ETTINGER. Three-Cent Fare Fight On Again Editor The Star: I see by Mr@ Henderson's report on the municipal street cars for Sep. tember that the system was out of the hole. ‘The porch climber has his rent to pay, but he has not enough cash on hand to meet the bill without pulling off another job, so he proceeds to lift another man's money by way of the second story window, without giving « receipt or rendering a serv. | |sents what has |the speculator, big business jother tax dodgers and slackers. his bill he puffs “What @ wonderful financier am I." |are equally culpable. cheaper fare and pledged themselves | prohilytive fare to use every gnergy to accomplish | them on the payroll. “Payroll” was all it amounted to, $,000,000 passengers a month, now it is serving about 6,000,000 that line, WILL THIS CHANGE OF FLAGS BE MADE? Such a question forms the theme of S. B. H. Hurst’s stirrin; Locusts,” which is to be The Star’s next fiction feature. It starts Monday. You 20-10 dows not make any change in the administration of school monica And that being true why should they Gistributed t& catch the votes neces Into this caldron of vice you cast the poor and unfortunate, the weak and tempted, to be exploited In law They become the peons of these intrenched graftera, For there is no other shady thing tn Seattle so ‘This is the court (7) where Mr. Gls immunity certificates were to A fow years ago @ nero named Crane went to the penitentiary, He is alleged to have long arranged tm- munity for underworld women. Why id not the prosecuting attorney send I am of the opinion he was sent on them, or | more profitable go-between, and this Since the 24 of May, the day of election, the patrons of the municipal jearline have put up over $3,000,000 tn jeaah, of which $1,200,000 was tn ex cena of & Gcent fare, That milion three hundred thousand dollars repre: been wrongfully |taken from the pockets of the home. owner and credited to the account of and Mr. Henderson alone ts not respon. fee, and when he has enough to pay {sible for this outrageous situation, up and says|but the mayor and the city council There is no When the munictpal campaign was |law nor decision of any court that | on last spring every candidate and | would hinder the city council from every kept paper was in favor of a| passing an ordinance to reduce the Before the high fare was put Into that end if the voters would put |effect the system carried more than and and we now hear not a word along | month. showing a falling off of more than 25 per cent, and at this time men of what country town people call shiftless. Financial conditions must be getting better because bigger swindles are being reported. . Want College Education? Lafayette, when it comes to keeping our troops on the Rhine, they are Lots of folks have the idea that If they didn’t go to college as soon as they got out of high school they are now doomed to pass thru Mfe without higher education. This idea is dispelled by a bulletin just issued by the extension service of the University of Washington. Altho many persons undoubtedly are unaware of the fact, the extension service offers a curriculum as extensive as most corre- spondence schools and more thoro. ‘These courses may be taken without interfering with one’s regu- lar business. They meet one or two nights a week and are open {to anyone able to pay the moderate fee that ix asked. There are also correspondence classes, Credits are given, which may be applied toward a degree. Subjects include: Practical public speaking, economics, account: ing, business law, money and banking, corporation finance, busl- ness correspondence, foreign trade, educational measurements, argu mentation, the English novel, modern English poetry, textiles, dress making, millinery, journalism, navigation and the Romanic lan- guages. If you're interested Just mail the following coupon to the Univer- sity Extension Service, Room 1044, Henry Building, Seattle. Lioyd George will have to go some to come back. Good Workers Live Long “Almost all good workers live long,” says G. Stanley Hall in his work on “Senescence: The Last Half of Life,” ‘2 recently published. Ee “The blind Dandolo, elected Doge at 84, storming Con- stantinople at 94, and afterward recalled again victorious, was elected at the age of 96 to the throne of the empire, which he declined, and died Doge at 97. Newton made important discoveries for every one of his 85 years. Washington, the perfect citizen; Welling- ton, the perfect soldier; Goethe, the all-knowing poet; Humboldt, the encyclopedia of science—all were old. John Quincy Adams fought the house of representatives at 88; Josiah Quincy attacked the Know Nothings at 85— said the bats were leading the eagles. He broke his hip at 92 and when Dr. Ellis called he was so charmed that he forgot to ask him how he was and went back to do so. Quincy said: “Damn the leg.” Gladstone, aged 83, faced a hostile government, house of lords, press, aristocracy, University Extension Service, Room 1044, Henry Building, Seattle, Washington. Gentlemen: Please mail me a copy of University Extension Bulletin No, 6, I inclose a self-addressed stamped envelope, university and, perhaps, a hostile queen, and said: “I rep- NAMO, .ogecsaccecccereccocveceseneccsccesesssscecwecacerss: resent the youth and hope of England.” Dr. Hall himself rounded out his three-quarters of a || § Md :*rtttrerreereess century when he wrote “Senescence.” ‘The rain fails on the just, especially the just pressed suit. ‘The female of the species got» more sleep than the male, novel, “The SCIENCE Speed of Light. Discovery Interesting. Jupiter’s Eclipse. Arrive at Figure. One of the most interesting of Why not redistribute the funds/mathomatioal discoveries was that Ught travels 166,000 miles in one pecond In observing the eclipses of one of the moons of Jupiter it was found to occur cartier than calculated. It. was found that when the earth | ure. was fn that part of ft# path nearest to Jupiter the ectipse began 16 min- utes and 36 seconds (or 996 séconds) earlier than when at ite most distant part. It ts eany to see that light had to travel clear across the earth's or- uit That Gistance divided by 996 sec- onds gave 196,000—the number of miles light travels tn a second. there are more people making Seat- tle thelr homes than at any other period In her history. Wouldn't such management gtve you # bad taste tn your mouth? Mr, Henderson mayn the cont of op- jeration has been reduced $33,888.69 by one-man cars. Of course the management does not care a tinker's a how many Seattle homeowners are deprived of an opportunity to earn an honest Iiving eo long an thelr masters can dodge their honest share of the municipal burdens. What the management has to blow jover ts away beyond my. diminutive comprehension. Street car systems are made to accommodate the people who live clone to them, at cost, and \not to drive patronage away on ac count of an excessive fare. I now call upon every public spirit- ed citizen who does not believe in |holding up one class of citizens to benefit another to join with me in an honest effort to put the 3-cent fare on the ballot at the next |municipal election, We do not want the support of |those who are willing to profit at |the expense of his or her neighbor, but we do want the support of those who are in favor of a square deal all around. Those who are willing to fight for justice will please com- municate with mo at 4704 Thackeray Place, City. Sincerely yours, R. J. WILSON, Dear Foiks: united, just a while ago, to pan Anvil Chorus now, and started tn Flees highe in the sky as youth: reaches thirty.two—and after that thetr beauty les in love and tru But when there's beauty in th creator, from day to day will use And that ts why I can't agree beauty, #0 It seems to me, comes to women friends, I take LETTER FEROM VRIDGE MANN A bunch of men who claim to know the taste of female beauty, remember how they used to praise the Mappem they've joined the ‘They ray that beauty peases by the age of curly tresnes, and Greatest height is dua, these birds are all explaining, when woman I often think it's plainly seen God sends his emile from heaven, Incarnate in the little queen whone age ts #ix or seven; for that's the charming dawn of youth, when young and old adore them—~ And when they get to thirty-two, and life has left its traces, there's often more than just « few of spoiled or hardened faces. is found in all the ages. faces, much depends on what they have behind them! @ Long hair, they say, is coming in style fast. Then hairdressers are not asleep at the switch. @ There is no excuse for a bachelor being a good liar. @ The hard thing about saving a dollar is you must save it every day you have it. destroyed 4,000 ukuleles. @ Too many people are kissing without meaning it. Rubber heels on the old man’s shoes are fine chaperons. @ Two Se- attle men were robbed. Why do crooks get so far away from Chicago? @ Many a sheik at the office helps wash the dishes at home. @ Honolulu’s streak of bad luck has changed. A fire down there the ittle cutie; and the I still to rap her, ful age progresses; and benuty’s it's waning. ith, when life ia all before them. © heart, then ‘Time, the great hia art to render beauty greater, with all these benuty sages; for Bo when it them as I find them—for as to Community Stability Eéitor The Star: ‘The Star, I note, has lately carried arguments for and against initiative No, 46, more commonly known as the 80-10 plan of taxation. It t# incomprehensible to me how any measure which has won the op- Position of the Chamber of Com- meroe, the governor of the state, and the state superintendent of public in- struction and mort of the news- Papers, can have the sincere support of intelligent voters, Advocates of the proposal admit that adoption of 80-10 will involve Increase of taxa- ton in districts having great tracts of timber lands and other forms of taxable property out of proportion to their population. Members of the Chamber of Commerce are interested in much of this property, such as the light and power plant at Detrin- gor, the lumber plant at Bnoqualmia, and the timber lands in Clallam county, and therefore, have every right to oppose enactments that will entall an increase of their taxes Other citizens should join tn fight- ing this obnoxious proporal, for any act that militates against the pros- perity of those who hold the bulk of the wealth of the community, will operate against the prosperity of all the people in the community. If those at the top of the economic scale are made to suffer all the in- fertor economic groups will suffer kewise, No state can long retain any degree of social and economic comfort which thus strikes at the soul of individual endeavor—the en- terprising minds in the world of fi- nance, commerce, trade and tndus- try. Soctety will exist only so long as we, the whole people, stand by those forcen which make for the stability of society, those substantial, public- spirited men in the Chamber of Com- meroe, and other commercial organi- zations. They employ their experts to study every important public question. Their experts have studied the 20-10 plan of school taxation and reported adversely upon it, after the most careful study of all the angles of the problem. PHIL LUKER, Fremont. Teachers Are Indignant itor The Star: Genttie teachers are indignant at the reflections cast upon thelr honor and disinterested loyalty schools in the most recent insued by the no-called Voters Infor- mation league in opposition to initia~ tive 46, the achool equalization meas- ‘After mentioning the proportion of school expeditures which goes for the payment of teachers’ salaries, the author of this bundle of misinforma- tion aske: “Does that look like tn- itiative No, 46 wan intended to bene- fitrthe school children of Washing- ton or is it simply @ means of ¢x- tracting more money from the over- burdened taxpayers of the state for the benefit of thone who are demand- ing the pansage of the bill” Tt ts rather significant, say the teachers, that while the Voters Infor- mation league ts raising tts hands tn holy horror because the teachers who come more closely in contact with the needs of the schools than any one eles are willing to back their faith in the law by putting up a ff slight contribution to help pay the necessary expenses of bringing tt be- fore the voters, this organization in silent as to where the large sums being spent in opposition to the measure have come from. It ts freely admitted by the teach- ers that there are certain large In- terests which have been escaping with a very light local tax on their rich Three Misplaced Paragraphs Editor The Star: In my letter to you appearing tn The Star Friday, the 27th inst., the last three paragraphs were injected therein by error, both by myself and your office. The mistake was not noticed until the next morning after) the letter was mailed to you, with-| out my final inspection, I immediately recalled the letter, which was rescued from the printer, and submitted a second sheet to re- place the one recalled. But some- how fn printing the letter, the orig- . BINYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 GLasses ON HARTH We@re one of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in SKATTLE—ON FIRST AVE. Examination free by graduate op- tometrist. Glasses not preseribed unless absolutely necessary, |BINYON OPTICAL CO. 16 FIRST AVR, inal three paragraphs were used in- stead of the corrected ones. Those paragraphs should read: | ‘The paper misstates the facts when it says “Your child will be compelled to sit in the school room with the child suffering from scarlet fever, whooping cough, infantile paralysis, small- pox.” Any one well informed on the symptoms of these diseases knows that the child suffering with the premonitory symptoms of any one of them, is too sick to sit in the school room, and when the child is sick in the school room from any cause, the written notice of the par- ents does not take away the right of the school nurse or doc- tor to examine him. The promonitoery symptoms of these diseases are very much the sume (that of a cold) and if there is a nurse or a doctor in. existence who can tell what those syphons will develop into, from 18 to 48 hours be- fore the symptoms are indica- tive of any disease other than a common cold, let she or he step forward, We feel very grateful to The Star for permitting us to use its columns to discuss the merits, facta, and justice of Referendum No. 18, and since The Star goes into more homes than any other, paper in the city, the influence it carries, we consider very great, 30-10 measure. Naturally, they '. these Interests are prepared to pend large sums to defeat much a which will force them to their just proportion to the edu of the children of the state, are prewuming rather far whi impugn the motives of a large of the teaching force of the en state because they are working what they believe is for the improve- ment of education. CITIZENS’ 30-10 COMMITTERL i itl efits 3 November The tons of a purple feather, A shimmer of arrows gold, And the silken swish of @ scarief witeh | Trailing o'er wood and wold : The «i of « cricket homeless, The meadow a desert brown, And the hilitop kissed by «@ silvery mist From gray November's crown. A hymn from the whispering forest, While the moon « red bow ~ gleams, And a sere bronze leaf, epurning all erief, Of her vanished glory ar a. Agnes Lockhart Hughes, 10th A N.W, School Fund Editor The Star: I have always found The Star ready to print honest beliefs of people who honestly oppose certain mease. ures, and I request that you print certain objections I have to “30-10," which is initiative No. 46 on the bale lot Tuesday, First of all, if the bill does not change the administration system for our school funds, why pile in more money? If your auto doesn't work you do not buy more gas uatil it is fixed. What Washington schools need is not more money, but @ change in the system. I heard Ralph Swetman, who ts paid @ salary by the teachers, who have raised $10,000 to put this thing over, say the bill doesn't change the system and that they do not want more money for schools, Why then ask for $10 more per census child? There are 280,000 in the state, so that means an extra tax of $3,800,000. 4 Every person knows that the only — way to keep any public body from spending money is to limit the amount we put in their hands) Who ever heard of any public F being turned back? “Thirty-ten™ Proposes to raise $3,800,000 more state school taxes with the promise that the districts may or can cut down © levies if they want to. As Seattle pays 21 per cent of all state taxes it means this city must contribute $798,000 of the extra state tax. Does anyone believe that the teachers whe are assessing themselves to beat the Parent-Taxpayers and are hopeful of getting the extra $3,800,000 into the school fund are going to help # cut $798,000 off the Seattle levy next year? 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