The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1922, Page 6

THE KILL OR CURE? SEATTLE STAR Outatde per year, My carrier, Ruthman, Special Repre Chicage office, Tribune didg.; New York offices, Roatan office, Tremont bids. « Pacific bide; When You Squeeze a Lemon © You cannot squeeze a lemon and get maple syrup. Neither can you put a big capitalist into office, with Power to squeeze capitalists, and expect him to so squeeze. ‘The three dozen Standard Oil companies, the big steel d 60 other corporations that pile up enormous profits been evading income taxes by declaring stock divi- of their surpluses, Wall Street announces that 54 tions have distributed over $1,200,000,000 in such s within 30 days. These “divvies” are, as a rule, stockholders affectionately term “pure velvet,” and iy mean that taxes thus evaded by the corporations are to be paid by somebody else, which is the rest of us. it is disclosed that, under the 1921 revenue act, a means for some relief for the aforesaid rest of Since that act gives the secretary of the treasury to assess a 25 per cent penalty on accumulated sur- every year, where the same are not needed in the ‘4 TuaT'S Poison Y Ue Secretary Mellon impose these penalties in relief the rest of us? Good Lord! Mellon is one of the big- capitalists in the country and interested in 64 or corporations that are doing their best to pile up t situation in the tax assessing department at Wash- fton is what prompts us to risk the statement, ds a c tific truth, that you can’t squeeze a lemon and get | never heard of a Britisher who would operate his ships under the flag before the war, or under the French fag, or under the fing, or under the Italian flag—under any of which he could Ne Operated his ships cheaper than under the British flag. He was to that relatively small penalty, if you will term it that, for —_c ship under the British fag—Philip Manson, before joint committee. Messages traveled 5,200 miles In four minutes and 18 seconds, n comes faster than that. secret; Your eyes can be made bright and shiny by always | on something you like. | rier | man seeks the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, while man enjoys the rainbow. One Room and Bath Sciologists need hunt no longer for the cause under- | + the divorce evil. Let them ask any rental agency at its latest “model” apartment house, and ve it. s, spurred on by landlords, are making three nts flourish where one blossomed before. Open of the modern apartment and you're half way in. | thing inside is built on the folding-up principle, like ncertin Women have to wear accordion-pleated | | to them into the closet. | s a button and the bath tub becomes a pretty gold- for the center table.- Center table, when not in | a table, serves splendidly as a combination china i book rack, clothes horse and davenport. Curtain s by become bed spreads by night. Rooms so si LETER FROM \VRIDGE PiANN Dear Folks Last week I went to church again, and struck a church of wealthy men; ite massive building reaches high. its srchitecture soothes the eye, and all about it bore the tale that things were done on quite @ scale. T wandered tn and looked around, and heard the organ's mighty sound; the choir soon began to sing, and made the very rafters ring—a bunch of singers good enough for theater or concert stuff. I watched the folks that filled the pews, « tanned them all as “well-todo's—a bunch of folks who, I would bet, were glad to pay for what they get. And then I heard the preanher state the ushers soon would pass the plate. He said, “Don't be so blooming tight.” or words to that effect “tonight. Last week we counted what we got, and then we aver aged up the lot, and found you paid for what J preach a little lem than five cents each!” Five cents for church, it seems to me, we give beenuse we get in free; and yet we blow a dollar bil] to see a bit of vaudeville, and think we've wisely spent our bone If we've enjoyed one act alone But that is how we ought to view the things we get in churches too; because, no matter where we go, we'll get returns from what we blow—a bit of song, some good advice, but something's always worth the price. United States. a outside to change your mind. le—children not entering into the land- to live amicably, if they are not over- do not a prison make, nor iron bars a estate man is producing a pretty good of fire-clay and plaster-board walls. partments, today,” the agent says want them, but they are A. And the divorce mills = 3 the troubles of Europe,” says United States Say, Hiram, did you ever hear the old story I the Priest and the Levite, who, gazing upon » fellow traveler, ; cold and hungry and wounded and suffering, also “had no Mahoney Punishment Too Severe Editor The Star: life in a lethal chamber built just I want to state my sentiments in| for such a purpose. , . regurd to the Mahoney case. 1 consider the murdered woman, ee First, I with to say I am an/Mre. Kate Moers, really the culprit teas to $40,000,000 says she will marry a cartoonist, and if that isn’t |eiderly, educated, refined woman, |in « different way, and as much to fen’t any. with sympathy towards every living | blame as Mahoney “Sa thing, and that I have not the least | How can an old woman dare to tie acquaintance with the Mahoney fam-|herself up with a man 30 years ily; in fact, have never seen them. | younger, and having such a previoun But the punishment in the/record as Mahoney had? The te«in. | Mahoney case was too terrible; I/ning of both their terrible endings | mean the manner of the death—the | was started right then and there, and | banging. could not end otherwise under the | 1 do not approve of this fearful | circumstances, | manner of the extreme penalty. A life nentence with hard labor} Sufficient the punishment to put! would have been suffictent for/ the culprit unconscious and end his | Mahoney. MRS, J.C. SMITH Declares Fault Is Clarke’s Editor The Star heat of them, and in my present con After reading Mr, Clarke's com- | dition I find life pretty good and two | feet off the bottom better than two 5 Seat. plaint of what « horrible piace him | iebew off the top. Smile, Clarke, tle is, I cannot help answering HIM | viniie, and you will find Seatth «mil in my homely way, for I cannot/ing with you, not at you. transfer my thought to paper as he I. N. DAVIS t. Hoover, engineer and diplomat, came quietly West |*" a brow, peac e a whi “é But, Brother Clarke, I think you; . cote Toe ne, fe reentas which had been |,ave a sour stomach or mink "Some Advice for he Star tips its hat to Mr. Hoover and his conimiasios |v" than the seven-year itch is Mr. Clarke ‘€redits him with one of the two or three outstand- |“°''™* %°% he Fant, miaare|PAitor The Star achievements to date of the Harding administration. ee ar ae an | y pete eee Tee. Wits Moen inter i : i i have quit in West Frankfort, TIL, but the kids fear the trouble cretary Hoover's Achievement } economic consequence than subsidies and ffs is the seven states’ treaty which has just been ne- down in the New Mexico desert by Herbert » Secretary of commerce. agreement divides the waters of the mighty Colo- ong the thirsty states of Colorado, Nevada, Wy- , Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and California, It $ each the water needed to turn vast stretches of des- te sage-brush acreage into gardens wherein can live a new empire of 20,000,000 people, a nation half e as France, and larger than Austria or Scandi- West, Alaska, and of all the places | est Mr. L. M. Clarke's Seattle roaster, ! on God's green footutool I find Seat- | commenting on Mr. Dent's letter of a ne brightest spot of any in all |/feW evenings ago, and altho Seattle it would be saving hundreds of mil. |‘ isband the shipping board and distribute |my travels. wind odd haoepa ee ip Peme Bg Proportion to their I have had street car motormen ¥ eougress rely upon state le and friendly rivalry | stop their cars to save me a step or to it that all available ships are manned upon the high seas under resin people offer me seats in carn, entative Blanton (D.), Texas. auto owners giving me a lift, traffic officers holding traffic and giving me a smile as I hobbled across the street, hotel managers showing me every RP a A ng consideration. People smile at me on human race is said to be 800,000,000 years old, In all that time |the street, but that «mile seems to learned better than to talk back to their wives. say, “Go to it, brother, we're with + en you.” Me The only fault I find is the hills, but what a view you get when at the top! I have no factal defect, but I would trade with you any time provided you accept my two wooden legs for your face, if such a thing were posalble. In the past I have enjoyed the best of health, had a sound body, strong limbs and could step around with the has proved he deserves to be called Tiger. H. persuaded porter to make his berth before 9 o'clock. x xs story: “Mamma, there is a wagon i ‘ind t Hil iat I wish old Santa would bring.” a apse thd Out of the Hole; Ford Did It e it to Henry Ford to get results. You recall, he over the Lincoln auto plant. It seems but yesterday. Lincoln plant has been pulled out of the hole. It a profitable basis, making money at the rate of iilion dollars a year. And it is booked-solid with to keep it busy for two years ahead. | 3 POOR OLD CONGKESS tam sorry to say that one ean hardly get in a Pullman car or enter lobby without hearing the expression, “To h—— with congress; | are antlquated; congress is out of date; it is not in harmony the people.”—Senator Dial (D.), Sy C ; ie a Dtaetts Saen TO { em. makes a holder of fake oil stock madder than reading about big Standard Oil dividends, og DK. J. Rh. 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Now Ht is just three or four darn things three or four others. ‘\/ts not my home town, I have lived here long enough to love it wit ail my heart and wouldn't leave it or trade it for any other city ip O®) you, Mr. Clarke, and change your We have had a great deal of sick-| friends you might have will oust you | ness in our home, and to the contrary ' out | SCIENCE | | || Fiction Idea Verified. | “Poison Ray” Found. || Crookes Does It. | Actinic Light. | Recent experiments remind us of the fact that poets and novelints fre quently forestall sete Of courne, thin thone ge rule The Model Of fice White-Henry-Stuart Building Rooms 3323-3325 ray” of one no discovered and tagged. 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