The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 6

a} The Seattle Star ad Proms Main 0600, ewe: Published Daily by The Star Publishing Oo aca iy ea ; Representatives flan Francisoe of Monadnock bldg; Chicago office, Tribuve bide.) New Yerk effies, Pacifis bidg.| Boson office, Tremont bids. That “Double Taxation” Cry Probably there is more boob logic dispensed on the sub- ect of taxation than on any other one subject, Right now a Seattle organ of selfish interests is mak- “A specialty of creating dust clouds about the state ome tax proposal. Tt 0 ie ass income tax on the ground that this mula “double taxation,” the U. S. government also such a tax. This “double tax,” according to this oning, is all wrong because it hits the same source ‘Well, don’t all taxes hit the same source, our incomes? it else could they hit, in the last analysis? Don’t you our real estate tax and your personal tax and your tax and your dog license and all the rest of the nses of all the governmental units out of your in- ? Certainly, you do. It’s double taxation, treble and than that several times over that you are already ing. he “double taxation” cry being raised against a state me tax is pure bunk, nothing else. he trouble in this state now is that the farmer, the owner and the firm with ble, tangible assets are all the load, or, at least, too much of the load. great incomes are being missed entirely. tax would catch these. If in catching them it also tht the farmer, the home owner and the firm with ngible assets, mentioned above, it would at the same reduce the latter’s present taxes accordingly and lin " The “little man,” of course, would be exempted, as he is now under the federal law; it is the big fellow who d pay, as he can well afford to do. he man that is yelping against a state income tax is ignorant or else he is afraid that property of his is now escaping its just share of the general load ill be made to pay. designers propose feathers for men's spring hats. And men ‘wear them while laughing at women’s styles, "Times are so hard the United States bought only $7,618,388 worth of [alamazeo, Mich., man postponed his honeymoon to go to jail, which fit him for married life. ‘of all the things movie stars have to ery about, they still use tears. Sheep, Goats and the Tariff of tailored clothing will increase 12 to 16 per cent soon, due to ty of workmen and the rising price of wool—L. A. Banner, sc National Merchant Tailor Designers’ association, in convention ‘Louts. Harding administration has done, ‘or on finish doling to help us; the McCumber-Fordn<y law tx a godsend to thi because of the tariff on wool—Frank J. Hagenbarth, presi- ‘National Wool Growers’ association, in convention at Spokane, i! Thank heaven we have found “out at last one - the McCumber-Fordney tariff is good for. It will ) further to enrich some of our struggling millionaire raisers, including dozen U. S. comforting discovery so intrigues us we are com- with the conventional apologies to Mother Goose, into more or less poetry: “Baa, baa, black sheep; have you any wool?” “Yes, str; yes, air; three bags full— One for the tallor who covers your back, And two for some G. O. P. campaign jack.” LEnvot: t And the sheep Jumped over the moon. empsey, ex-pugilist, says he will not fight for less than $500,000. es too much to make him mgd. are not so much interested in what well dressed men will wear as men will wear. never is as much trouble as there could be. This time next year be choosing a Hampshire legislator would make eight hours’ sleep compulsory. Jet it keep you awake. ly 11 more months before this year will be last year, 10 Million Rubles a Cat n villages that ate their cats during famine find themselves overrun with rats and mice.” S$. 0. S. the American relief administration to rush lem another supply of cats. verything exists for a definite purpose. Cats, snakes, ds, spiders and other “pests” were put here to rats, mice, insects and other real pests that con- ly war on our health and food supply. good thing to remember, that there’s a purpose back e jing. Meantime, cats in the famine districts of ia are selling for 10 million rubles each. Here's a ce to get rid of the singer on the back fence. nd floor of one of Germany's jeading papers fell to the basement. @ reporter tried to write something nice on France. say there will be no soft coal strike in 1923, so now wo can our worry on the hard coal. new will make cans to keep food 100 d -yhenati iene ecp years and it might be 8 could be worse. Special session of congress is improbable, is asking us for a square deal and has the cards siacked, Are the Winters Less Rigorous? ortland, Maine, had about five feet of snow during uary. This was the greatest fall of any month since he Portland weather bureau was established 40 years oving nods will come from the weathermen, who that the seasons are not changing and that winters the northern states are as severe as they used to be, 1 inpes ‘ade pared of M years each, settlers disagree. ey should know, havi the job before the weather bureaus. Majhe eters as are now as ee we were, but seem legs so because improvements in heating, housing, tra: ion and clothing. Wicceatag me an opera singer's wifo lost perth so tanels no ono reed Amorioes Ty ony Fath, exbaeeball player, has reduced 20 pounds. He worth 1 Ital Pri 0,000 Italian lire, n doctor says bolshevism is due to bad teeth. hee hey tn leeth. We knew there ‘Tree association ‘will plant 1,000, y pig Bry Plant 1,000,000 trees, so don't worty THE SEATTLE STAR FOR AT LEAST A YEAR | THE ONE-MAN WOMAN BY RUTH AGNES ABELING CHAP. 50—ALICE’S STORY BEGIN HERE TODAY ATR WARD, widow of DAN WARD, has a visitor, CHINATOWN ALICE, who says Dan was father of her child. Ki much per-| turbed. Wooed by JAMES LATHAM, of whom si ! fond, she what to saf Determined own Ife. Mer father wae a bandl and ber mother a woman of fine fain ily who sloped and married him. GO ON WITH THE STORY “With all of the hardships and oi KATE SAW IN THE MOON- LIGHT THE GLISTEN OF TEARS. dead at her feet—dead, with too many wounds on his body to count, ‘count. “He had been feared thru all of that section,” Alice continued, “and finally the men who feared him got him. “Mother became an old woman during that last moment of father’s life. She must have loved him and he mnat have loved her, in spite of his roughness and neglect, becaune, suffering intense agony, he raced with death to reach her and die near her. “I like that memory,’ there was a thrill of pride in her voice. “I'd rather have that memory of him than to think of him as a successful “The thing I remembered most about mother in her later years, is standing, slim figured, elim-faced, in front of the picture of her outlaw husband and worshiping It. 1 don’t suppose she had a new silk dren tn all of the time she was married to him. 1 know he made no provision only the bare little cabin we lived in and a few sticks of furniture and she always said he'd been good to ber. business man content to live and dle away from his home. “I must have been about 10 then, Mother stayed on in the little cabin. Nothing could have dragged her out of it. How she ever got food and clothing for the two of us I don't know. But she did it and not once did she complain of the struggle. Sho might have gone back to her fathor’a home. But she didn’t. ‘They refused to recognize her when she married, After that she never expected any- thing from them, tho I never heard her speak bitterly of her relatives. “She died about five years ago,” the words were barely audible, "Sho was found dead in the cabin by a hunting party, I hadn't seen hor for two years, 1, as she had been be fore me, waa willful, and had started my own career, jeaying all of my family ties behind, as so many mountain girls do. MARRIAGE A LA MODE ‘Whereas in China and Japan the bridegroom sends for his bride, tho Zulu bride reverses the order and Koen to get the bridegroom, She doosn’t appear at the wedding banquet, which consists mainly of ronst.ox, and such presents as sho receives are of the useful kind— blankets and kitchen utensils, for instance. However, the bride has a good deal to say about the arrangements, making her own bargnin, for ex: ample, as to the number of cattle the bridegroom shall pay to her father for her, Accept only “Bayer” package which contains “I didn't go back for the funeral,” Allce added, “because I didn't know she was dead until they'd put her body away in the village cemetery.” | “I wonder,” said Kate, the silence at length, ways true that, breaking “it it ten't a} like your mother, women love most the men who de mand the greatest sacrifices and who give them the least.” | “It does seem,” maid Alice, “that Jove in thing begotten and devel. oped by sacrifice.” MO! | X LETWER FROM \V RIDGE MANN Dear Polka: It giver to aay that uni and place « larg: day © pleasure, now and then, to culogixe my fellow men: ath the hide we all are nt folks inside, and nd firm O. K. on folks we meet from day to I like to think it, yet I know it's really not exactly #0; for now and then I meet a few who tie the orn to such view, and tempt ink the world is largely on the blink » the guy you meet on crowded cars whe hogs the seat—the pompous, exotistic goof, with only bone beneath his roof, who seems to have « crazy whim thut all the world was made for him. wis are hanging onto straps, and kids are held in » calmly sits, for all his ride, with half a seat on never mover a single bit to let some other per non alt A Broadway car, the ocher day, had su bimbo on display. I thought I'd give his mug @ biff, and tell him, “Move, you lazy wtiff! But I'm discreet and didn't try, for he was twice as big as 1 fo, while I always like to eay that everybody's quite O. K., and even tho I've always found a lot of friendly folks around, and tho I'm far from hard to sult—there’s #till a few I'd lke to shoot! YDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1923. Good Manners No group of well-bred persons will th on some theme umber, thru the subject, te Even @ «in if of & nature to give from which one of thelr with ‘on the outside.” unfamiliarity kept gle remark, one of the party the impression of being ignored, should be explained. SCIENCE British Discovery. Plants Have Fever. Studying Phenomenon. Bacteria Are Cause. | | LETTERS 32 EDITOR One House Is a Plenty Kaitor The Star It gave me much pleasure to read John C, Rathbun’s letters relative to the one-house proposition presented by Senator L. 1. Westfall of Spo kane was thought to be any need for more than one house in a legislature, either in any of the etates or the| United States, The senate was a copy of the house of lords without the restrictions as to membership ‘The girl's voice was unsteady and | when Kate turned to her, she saw, tn the moonlight. the glisten of tonre. ou tion, (Te Be Continued) (Copyright, 1933, by Seattle Star) It haw me te always been a mystery to understand why there ever that obtained in the house of lords. And whereas there! have been some ARE YOU TOO THIN? Do you have corners and knobs where there should be curves and plumpness? Do the scales show you are below the standard of welght for your age and helght? Are you too thin? If you are, our Washington bureau ts prepared to help you. A brief but comprehensive bulletin on tested methots of weight increase, with menus carefully worked out and fult directions, obtained from government sources, is yours for the asking. Just fill out the coupon below and mail to our Washington bureau: Washington Bureau, The Seattle Star, 1822 New York Ave., Washington, D. , I want « copy of the bulletin, “Welght Increase,” and inclose herewith a two-cent stamp for postage. NAMO, . -<+ + comeonns' onthe ohne Sis ote anes awenian ome om Street and No. City Strange simtlarities between plants and people are being found con- stantly. When a human betng of any other Animal becomes Infected by bacteria or other vegetable parasites, fever ts the result Mr, and Mrs. Pole-Evans, English scientists, have made the discovery | that the same thing occurs in plants, ‘Their experiments were made with oranges and grapefruit. When they j inoculated the fruit with the moldy | substance that forms on the top of | Jams, the rise in temperature of the fruit could easily be measured with a thermometer. This line of research is likely to have an important bearing on the raising of fruit, | great changes made in the laws af- |fecting the power and prerogatives jof the house of lords, the senate re- |maina the same. The most desired |change, in my opinion, would be its extinction. If it were not for the |fact that its continued existence |makes it possible for thousands of | politicians who are anxious to live im |luxury at, the expense of the taxpay- |ers we would have more persons ad- |vocating the one-house proposition. |I do not think tt possible that a good and substantia] reason can be given for the continuance of both houses. If there is, I would Ifke to know |what they are. The subfect, in my Jopinion, is of enough importance to warrant all the publicity you ean af- ford to give it; there can be no doubt but that the cost of government would be very much PRO BONO PUBLICO. 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