The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1923, Page 8

PAGE 8 Star My ma year, ut * Main Hew. tof fo FP New ¥ We have laughed at them. We have ridden them like beasts. We have advised them, and chucked them under the % chin at election time. ' We have felt superior to them, a i ily when they tried to live like hu if 6° 6Who? ' The poor boob farmers And yet we live or die, as things are arranged in this country, thru the loyalty and faith and hard work of the | farmers. ‘ | This would be one fine country if the farmer ever got class conscious, wouldn't it? If he ever got to the place © where he quit planting, as a matter of faith, and routine, and calculated a bit, as a town labor union leader cal- culates. ' There's the good rich ground, and the plow, and the Seed; spring comes and the farmer plants, as naturally, ‘and as quietly, as the robin drifts North. Much less sense than the robin. The farmer doesn’t drift. He roots, like the oak. But maybe, some time, the American farmer will quit planting potatoes and wheat and spring heifers and hogs and sheep. Don’t think the farmer doesn’t plant the hog as truly as he does the wheat. There have been nations that came to the point where the farmer quit and moved to town; those nations died, of # «course, but history does not relate that the farmer who © «moved to town died any quicker than the “wise” urban dweller, who had been there all the time. i All this merely in passing; the chief fundamental indus- ® try in any country is agriculture; the most outstanding in- dustry that fails to return a profit in this country is agri- culture. Think it over, city folks; rather soon this farmer thing is going to be more than a quip for sterile vaudevil- lians. We feed you. You laugh ‘at us. So? | Asses Sometimes Kick i cursed them heart an beings. TIT FOR TAT +, When the shipping bill of 1915 was under consideration by congress | dt was defeated by a filibuster, it will be remembered, terminating the ‘session of 1915, in which the distinguished president of the United States, ‘then a senator from Ohio, participated—Senator Walsh (D.), Mont, ; aR: sate i HUMANS VS, MACHINERY __ Bfficiency engineers tell us it takes longer to train a working force than to build a plant and install the machinery.—N. P. Allifas before sponate committee on appropriations. Towa legislator wans to.stop cooks from smoking, when stopping them from burning would be better. An American bandit was caught in Mexico, showing it is safer to stay in your own country. 4 About That Income Tax Bill | The special, self-seeking interests who put the poison | into the state income tax bill brought about its defeat when _ they refused to permit the change of a word. The principle of the income tax is right; the provisions ‘of the proposed law were wrong. So the bill is dead. - Homer T. Bone, who has represented Tacoma at Olym- ‘pia, stated the case exactly in the income fight. He pointed 1. That the bill, while it fixed a 40-mill levy on real ‘estate, did not bar county equalization boards from boost- ‘ing valuations and thus keeping taxes up. | 2. That the tax on municipally-owned power plant rev- “enues is vicious and indefensible. | 8. That the secrecy provision of the measure opened ‘the door to all kinds of graft and crooked work. |» 4. That the proposed tax hit the little fellow harder | ‘than the big fellow. 5. That exemptions provided for the little fellows were 400 low. . 6. That the bill did not provide any machinery for col- ing the tax and that as a result the state department ‘required to handle the work was not bound by a budget and could run riot in money spending. Bone got right at the heart of the trouble. The bill de- ‘Berved defeat. Tf this legislature cannot evolve a decent, fair and just ancome tax bill, then it is up to the folks to initiate one. "Then, if the people turn it down, that should be sufficient ‘proof that they don’t want it. sel The Star believes a fair income tax bill which would ‘make intangible wealth pay its share of state government 4 bill that is open and above board and without pro- vision for secrecy—would be carried easify if the people Were given a chance to vote on it, and if they were assured it would correspondingly reduce the extortionate general ‘taxes now in force, WHERE MELLON STANDS You can always tell where Secretary Mellon stands. When he says : that he stands for a certain proposition or against a Proposition, you Hay put it down that tomorrow he will be standing right on that same spot—Representative Oldfield (D.), Ark. | They have dug up a king 3,400 years old in Egypt, so somo day they “May get around to the soldier bonus, Cotton dresses are coming back. People living in cotton dresses should keep away from boll weevils. £ _ Tom Edison's 76th birthday came on Sunday so he probably rested 10 or 15 minutes. Dope Bill Should Pass—Pronto! ___ Is someone, or are some interests making horseplay of the anti-dope bill at Olympia? It begins to look that way. The narcotic bill—a measure with plenty of long, sharp teeth—passed the house, The senate tacked more than 50 “amendments to it, after a long, unexplained delay. Now the bill is back before the house. All of the amendments Aust be acted upon. There is a mighty big chance that the ‘Measure will fail. It should not be necessary to instruct the legislators that _ the narcotics bill is important. Certainly there is no man _ at Olympia so dense that he fails to understand the imme- _ diate necessity for a state law to smash the dope traffic ‘and send the dope peddlers to prison. hen why doesn’t the legislature pass the bill? The decent people of this state—the people who owe no allegiance to any gang of politicians—are going to demand an explanation if the dope measure fails to get on the @tatute books this session. And the people are going to *emember the legislators who caused the delays, | _ Pass that narcotic bill, you legislators! There can be _ Bo question but that it is absolutely right. And you know St. Stop the horseplay, and ACT. ——_—____ v BACKWARD STATES I understand that there are only two states, both agricultural states, that have no child Iabor Inws, and where there has beon no effort to make possible a law. Wyoming is ono of them. 1 think Arizona or ‘Utah Is the other-—Dayid Clark before senate committee on the Judiciary, 7 elt We heard # waiter ask a man how long he wanted his steak cooked and the man answered “Twelve inches.” In Now York a woman kicked in a shop window, She may have seen ®& hat just like hers for less money, w about the bank clerks who count If you think your work ts hard, _ other people's money all day long? MY OL0 Teacher KNEW ABOUT LIFE 7? “THE BOY GREW OLDER!” PEMEmMserR wv BO, | CRIME DOESNT PAY! LETTERS REDITOR 2222225 On the Defense Line Editor The Star: up in a lies, » Of one of my ho is about to leay the United au under fire. war 1 want | | It seems an opportune time to rise | | ite w fow facts, seemingly over looked by investigate Before to | “Buddy” Forbes was ¢ jtation the pr |lscted Forbes, with a t living jealary and the responsibility for thé |direction and welfare of 6,000,000) claimants against the government. It was admitted then, and is today, this is the largest organization !n any one department of any government in the world and that the gigantic task of making such a huge machine operate to the satisfaction of every- one would be next to impossible, However, the following things have hbeen brought about and are directly tributary to this one man’s efforts, and I want the doubting ones to read them over before Jumping at conclu- sions: Prior to the organization of the veterans’ bureau the federal board, public health and the war risk surance and seve 4 ments, were all attempting to function | | in the interest of world war veterans, j all making earnost efforts, but get-| ting nowhere. The unsolved problem | was passed up to the director of tho | bureau, who absorbed all of these de- partments along with the herculean |Job of cutting down reckless waste of monies appropriated for the veter- ans themselves, and who formulated & policy and a department that could be practically applied to the laws | providing for the welfure of our men. | You recall the brazen extravangant | epidemic was just at its peak around | August, 1921, or about the time | “Buddy” Forbea was saddled with | } this responsibility. One of his first moves coinciding with the president's views was to check this epidemic, A small effort in this direction In this, his own home district, brought about an annual saving in rents alone of thousands of dollars, and in another effort, in selecting a hospital site at ho expense to the government, In making thean dents in the “epidemic,” better and more efficjent quarter were secured in every locatién. It is conceded that this city has the most compl and up to date district of- ficers of any of the 14 districts and is functioning to a far greater extent in all its departments than any other district office, The results obtained In this dis- trict alone, should certainly have some reflection of credit where it be- longs, and in line with the presi- dent's efforts to impress on congress and members of the cabinet “needs for Judicial expenditures,” commen- dation from this source stiould be ex- pected. Ignorance of results of this character by congress and the public in general may be accountable for the censure and criticisms of the present administration of the U. 8. V. bureau, but should there be an in- vestigation thru congressional chan- nels it might be possible that some bright mind would develop a few facts that are really worthy of recog- nition, Facts, figures and statistics published in the annual report of the director of the U. 3. V, bureau as of June 30, 1922, might be referred to with pride. As to results that have been obtained trom the laws cover- ing the operation of the bureau, any such results in private corporations would be shouted to the world thtu advertising mediums for years to come and held up as a standard to competitors. urtment alone in this won. nization (insurance) should be sufficient evidence to the most critical of what has been accom- plished, Has all the private capital and energies in this One direction in the whole U. 8. A, been able to ofter any such inducement to provide for sickness, death and old age? I should say not, nor will there ever bo, Uncle Sam's Insurance stands as a permanent guardian to we world war veterans thruout our lives and then to our families and heirs, and under conditions within reach of us all. True, 6,000,000 seems’ a large num- ber, but there has been ample pro. vision for just that many, ‘The “buddy” who doosn’'t take advantage of it ae carly an possible will | tainly regret It. No Investment, even government securities, offers any such return as the United States veterans’ #gain repeat, this one achievement, | one of the di the veterans than ss I could @ other big th they are getting no credit for, Some day these unjust ics will wake up |} that helped so maferially in bring | ing this but never forge ondition about will | who knew him b They give me credit of being a litte: nutty, but thank God I have enough brains left to appreciate ig norance of @ man's best efforts. “OVERSEAS.” bureau insurance, and I ts, of | more | |Says Beer-Drinking on and tell you a lot of| Is Aid to Success sectors’ best eff bureau, Y y the most cr aa thin bureau is do- ing—rehabliitating, vocational train} CAMBRIDGE, Eng., Feb tr en over oul of the] Speaking here in imag placing | hibit the « walk, blind af hear, dumb/ drunk beer are the g things! of the world.” LETTER FROM \VRIDGE MANN What has life the right to And #0 I like to watch the rings I see the ladies wear; on trolley cara 1 watch things, to nee a h » if, no matter you « _ taring guy who gives your hand the it t Giritge Donne Facts of the Matter By Berton Braley ing that tr E may be humble, we may be meek, inclined © nelfish in what we seek, only ‘to help our kind. still our bons, And since undoubtedly this is thus, With our confession we come across, The thing thi i s us—ia Ust (ce ght The Seattle Star) MARRIAGE A LA MODE | During her girlhood | ally ts referred to as | the daughter of So-and ‘So; she | her sons. later is known as the mother of ow ng day the Korean ly velled; the bride groom appears clad in white ex- cept for a gray walstcoat and a | bat woven from the hair of bis { father’s ancestors. bride is he MONDAY ———— FEBRUARY 26, 1923 oo seeeeee: [are youone of the marked > Do your gums bleed easily? fso,takeheed. Pyorrhea is coming. Itstrikesfour persons out of every five past forty, and thousands younger, endanger- ing their priceless teeth and health, Brush your teeth with Forhan's More than a tooth paste —it checks Pyorrhga weeeeeeceeceeeseoeoanneccecsesesoeee: Oe ORO LORRERREDROMRAREDecererereeoeseneesecnnneces: 35¢ and 60c in tubes g----- ++ ~~ +o eeweewrwrewecccerwewrererereresecces: SCIENCE Psychology Wins. Rating Cards Used. Analyze Personalities. May Be Much More. It is possible, a few years from |now, that when @ person applies for & Job he will present his psychologt- jcal rating card, instead of letters of recommendation, | In spite of criticism, the paycho- |logical tests used in the army have come to stay. Many large corpora- ons are using them; The United States civil service bas Installed the system, ‘These tests are supposed to ana- lyze @ person and tell what he Is best fitted to do, A corporation, not for profit, has been formed by 166 of the leading psychologists of different untverst- ties for the purpose of giving these testa to persons who want them and jthen issuing a rating card, to each person examined. A resolution, approved by the house committee, fs pending in com gress requiring the use of the army psychological tests on !mmigranta, Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Toothache Neuralgia Headache Neunttis Lumbago $$$ ny Rheumatism Sciatica Pain, Pain Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proper directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. 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