The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 7

The Seattle Star Published Daity by Th Phone Main €600, ewe Paper Boterprise Associa tity, Hee per month: # men Hate of Wasnt montha, er Gilman, NI ives, fam Franciece of fire, Monadnock bite, © + bidg.; New York office, Canadian Pacific bidg.; Boson office, Tremont bide Tax Reformers Must Use Sense Clubs, leagues and associations are springing up all Over the state for the purpose of forcing tax reductions. ‘All of which is very good, provided, of course, that some- Body doesn't slip in jokers. Recently one crowd of taxation haters got together =e adopted a resolution demanding that the state abolish ‘ state reclamation levy and the land settlement de- "The taxation sharks had better let that land reclama- “tion levy of one-half mill alone. | The money raised by the half-mill goes into a fund to help irrigation districts that are turning desert land Se producing property. The state doesn’t lose the oney and it doesn’t give it away. It merely buys irri- on district bonds after investigating the irrigation ajects and finding them okeh. Then, when the bonds wt to have a real market value, the state sells them. system helps develop the state; it is in fact a tax tion scheme itself for it puts more property on the rolls. The money for putting ex-service men on the land the land settlement scheme comes from the recla- n levy. This, too, appears to be a mighty sound, way of making desert land into rich farms and ding to the taxable property of the state. he tax limit organizations would do well to watch ir step. If they pick up with soreheads and fanatics, 4 will get nowhere in their work. If they go cautious- and carefully they may do much good. When President Harding failed to deliver bis annual message to con on the opening day of the regular session he broke a precedent we ao only ence before been broken in the history of the republic. Harding says the only way to reduce taxes is to curtail expenses for research, improvement and development. If he ee ee ee ee Oe we te te do it, How to Make the Wobbly Wobble \ n you hear a street corner “wobbly” raving over @ rotten capitalistic government, you shrug your should- and march away, and you wonder how this sort of f gas ever puts anybody to sleep. ravings of the wobbly would never give this nation te’s unrest, nor would they appeal, as they do to- tens of thousands of honest workers, if the wobbly n't every day have at least one shifling example of the ite cussedness of a certain type of employers. fake that recent item about the 14 boys who had been m from a Pennsylvania feeble minded “home” and put work in a private mine. They were found sleeping in cold, hard bunks; they were filthy as to body and fe debased as to mind and morals than they were be- They had been paid a dollar or two a week by the } superintendent and had been held as truly slaves 0 in time British prison hulk. oe a ae 8 $40 bm fe unlucky because there are no $40 bills. : Only $223 a Student Chamber of Commerce committee on university f which visited the campus yesterday, was astonish- P| wn how economically the U. of W. is being op- ited, and the public at large no doubt will be even more ding to figures presented by President Suzzallo, total cost per student is only $223 a year. This com- with $300 to ee . Neogge eg ge Even the me! wre of $333 ollege 0: ashington r ly part of the story. For, of the $223, 3 r byl its up $145, and = remaining $78 comes ets of the studen * the committee was surprised to learn how eco- nicall; the building has been carried out at ity. Seven tiful new structures have so —_ erected on the Fo ed schedule. Their total been only $1,300,000, which is but a small frac- J jars Le a the Roosevelt high school alone cost the _ And of this amount, only half came out of state funds he university's Me litan lease and the student fees ng up the remainder. THE _ MELODRAMA STUFF SEATTLE STAR see: NE CHEE -ILD!! KIDNAPPED! enough affirmative. Melville chatr 1990-Litthe, Brown & Company “Ho's a good friend of your famity. new your folks, fore.” (Starts on Page 1) & few points that might help te clear we Ordering his men to thelr work, Melville and Sprigtey stood apart, and tor nearly an hour engaged 10° the lye'toia that fact. ‘The explanation, most earnest conversation, The after-|povever, was beyond him. oon was ehadow-flaked and pele! . ow when they had finished, and before Forest leaned forward. You re Sprigley led his men back within ~~ the gray walle he had arranged for Melville to come to the prison after the dinner hour and confer with Mitehell, the warden. Many and tmportant were the de velopments arising from thi¥ latte One of the least of them was that Melville's northward jour- = ney was postponed for some days, and that within @ week this same! = white-haired, lean old man, dressed fn the garb of the cinder trail, was pleading his case to no less a person- age than the governor of the Btate of Washington tn whom authority for dealing with Ben's case was ab solutely vested. It came about, fron the same cause, that a noted allentat Forest, of Beattie, visited Ben Darby in his cell; and finally that the Prisoner himself, under the strict fuard of @priciey, wae taken to the capital at Olympia, ‘The brief Inquisition that followed changing the entire current of Ber Darby's life, ocourred in the privat: office of McNamara, the governor McNamara himeelf stood up to greet them when they entered, the guar’ end the convict. Ezra Melville and Forest, the alientst from Seattle, were already in session, The latter con Gueted the examination. Ho tried his subject first on some of the most simple tests of sanity. 1° became evident at once, however, the’ except for his amnesia Ben's mine was perfectly sound: he passed a) general Intelligence testa with a hig score, he conversed castly, he talker frankly of his symptoms. He ha perfect understanding of the genera sweep of events in the past & years: his amnesia seemed confine’ to his own activities and the activi ties of those intimately connected with him. Where he had been, wha he had done, all the events of hiv life up to the night of his arrest remained, for all his effort to re member them, absolutely in dark ness. “You Gon't remember this man?” Forest asked him quietly, indicating Ezra Melvil the trouble and time he haa, tn your|what do behalf." ty and Untermeyer are having an epistolary and prelim! in the newspapers before putting on the gloves before the homes fs given t ~ Spd urkeys Christmas as Thanksgiving there We Must Stick to the Past Wai © gece Harding, army <u) these United ati r a8 an exponent of the philoso; let well enough alone.” ” rr ‘some one—for hs Norris, senator from Ne- faska—propose something new, and watch how Mr. arding reacts. Norris introduced a bill to permit newly ot nt ge Ay cag Nd hp at once, instead of wait- ore they e up issu i ople have ye ond ews.” ttycighe: on mply a measure ing the government up to the ou understand, and not so radical but that it can dorsed by the American Bar association. what does Mr. Harding say? ‘ell, the Founding Fathers knew what they were about ‘0 Phen gece this great constitution under which it was good enough for them is good enough Of course, times have not changed, nor th t ins of travel and communication, nor world teohdarta, een the time that George Washington left office and ‘arren Harding entered the White House. ‘When the worm turns tt doesn’t always turn inte a butterfly. height of ignorance Is thinking you know everything. DR. J. R. BINYON BOYS! Win One for Your Sister Free Examination BEST $2.60 Gtasses ON EARTH one of the few the Northwest that realty from start. to. fink ahe only ane in LEON FIRST AVE. enary. wae BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVE member the Saskatchewan river? Ben straightened, but images in his mind were not clear for him to answer in the “I'm afreid not.” leaned “Ask him if he remembers cance race at Lodge Polo—or the time he shot the Atha- baska rapide.” Ben turned brightly to nim, but slowly shook his head. winning the member ever hearing of them be “I think you would, tn time,” 1 should #47 | Forest remarked. he waa a very good friend, to tak@/ been interesting experiences, Now these mean Thunder Lake—Abner Darby—Edith Darby—MacLean's College———” Ren relaxed, focusing his attention on the names. (Turn to Page 15, Column 1) TUT UU TMI IUTULUCUILA TAMIL LALA LULUL UUM LILLIA P GIRLS LETTER how many lonely folks we meet, Eetitor The Star: In one of the city papérs I aaw an article, one of the most extraordi nary expressions of desires that prob ably ever escaped the lips of woman kind. An Ilustrater—« famous one, too said that “If I were to die and go to heaven, all I would ask for would be to be made like Alice Joyos.” So preposterous tn conception and With « luck of spiritual knowledge as to what heaven really is makes the reader pause and wonder It goes to show that the god of fashion has the fair sex securely In the dim Kéitor The Star: The taxpayers, farmer forward tn his benefit of special interests, thru operation of the industrial insurance department of the state of Washing- ton. In 1011 « bil was passed by the state legislature creating the tndus- trial insurance department, for the purpose of compensating certain workmen injured in the course of their employment. It was provided that the industries included in the act should be assessed in proportion to the hazard of the Industry, to pro- vide a fund to pay « stipulated com- pensation for the Injuries sustained by the workmen engaged In that tn- dustry. “I can't re “They must have to yout— For the Instant the It Is 14 Inches High SECURE ONLY THREE New Subscriptions to THE SEATTLE STAR And You Will Be Presented With a Big Sleeping Doll WITHOUT A CENT OF COST Just get THRED of your friends and neighbors who are not now having The Star de- You do not have to mon. er make delivery of the paper, simply take the order for The ‘star, aad ad Have subscribers sign subscription blank printed below, then bring to The Star office. As soon as you have secured the THREE subscriptions and they have been verified Mvered to them to subscribe for three months. you will be awarded one of the beautiful sleeping dolla, SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE NEW, THAT HAVING THE STAR DELIVERED TO THEIR HOMES. Out-of-town subscriptions must be paid for in advance at the rate of 60c a month. c----— TO SUBSCRIBERS | I hereby subscribe to The Seattle Star for three months and thereafte: | same discontinued, for which I agree to pay carrier at the regular rate wee fad I AM NOT NOW HAVING THE STAR DELIVERED TO ME NAME ADDRESS Bring Subscriptions to The Seattle Star ' FROM VRIDGE MANN Will she live to learn that we're @ town of frie nde? 1 wonder, too, when on the atreet I mee like Minn how many folk» are living bere, and daily fase us by, who need & bit of friendly cheer muck? more than you om I! An Illustrator’s Wish its grip, to be with but little qhought about ber soul. Is it possible] that any sane woman | within the terms of this measure ts could have #0 the Immense v@lue of her soul in the future beyond |as to brazenly speak | chant and taxpayer has lost $2,000« such words to |the public? Her knowledge is so limited, ber tg norance #0 caste « refiectipn of devilishment In the minds of ple, Poor, deludied worman! Her idea | thone industries, instead of adding te of heaven ts so Hense that she clases | the load of the already overburdened herself as a fit of hades, Another $2,000,000 ] Take Home Beautiful, 8 SLEEPING DOLL Many Other Styles to Choose From. No Dolls Less Than 14 Inches High—Many Larger NO DISAPPOINTMENTS 18, PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT NOW FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1922 SCIENCE New Radio Idea. i: Prints Messages. : |]/ Dear Fotks Already Tested Out. % We often quit the datly grind discour seed, blue and sad; our vA Vv ' Pi 2 pesximiatic frame of mind forbias our being glad. Bo whem you're 180 Words a Minute. 3 ih the dark abyss where montal dergona da\nee, It's time you ought 4 to think of Miss Fernando Michaut Sf Fra noe It fe not necessary to use « head ae | I met her just the other day, and heard :xbout her life; how Fate phone or « loud speaker any more * } had made her help to pay the cost of war and strife. And now, keep tn touch with the world 4 |] when discontentment stirs, and troubles m # heir claim, I just png agit cm irgipal ; | compare my lot with hers--and then 1 blusl) for shame ¥. G. Creed, of Lo England, q | She had, In childhood's little de leas wnt, he home, with hang perfected and demonstrated @ |] brothers, sisters, time to play, and runny la nen to And then machine for picking up wircices mes i the war, with gun and troop, that left the tana bereft, and robbed sages and printing them in plain, of } her hon al! its group, till she alone was te ; i , A ch eae oh dave pening es for life had lont ite Net; but | @inary type. It operates at the rate . |] with the soul of Joan of Aro, she made her Honely fight. And now ot 180 words per minute. t she's here—her lane may ni but ere her story ends, I wonder, The meenage is firet prepered F sent out by & fast automatic machine thru the ether, The many people a» have the receiving machines may at once read it in print | @round half the world. It has alrendy been usea between the Eiffel Tower, Paris, and London, and between Cologne, Germany, and Aldershot, England. An installation is being put in to operate between the Congo Free Btates and Brussels. Newspapers are considering instail- tng them. 4 stranger's glance, ichaut of France and others engaged in more hazard. | ous industries are not included with- in the terms of the act, and their employes do not recet ‘ome pensation for any injuries that they may sustain in the course of thelr employment, The number of industries brought orshiped as her God, ttle understanding of | comparatively small, so that the net result is that the farmer, the mere | 000, for which there has been ao return. Is there any reason why the tn- dustries affected by thin act should not pay the loss caused directly by upfathomable, that it jecert, Chrintian peo. jel for the demons | taxpayer? GR H the general funds, by taxing all prop- This Big Seventh Ave. Near Union