The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1923, Page 13

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DON VICKERS (Use This Subscription Coupon) aE Midian seas ae ae BRING SUBSCRIPTIONS and get your tickets at the Circulation Dept. he Star ‘Seventh Ave, Near Union THD SEATTLE STAR | Seattle, Washington. | I hereby subscribe to The Seattle Star for three months, and thereafter | until I order samo discontinued, for which I agree to pay the authorized | carrier at the regular rate of 60c per month, 1 AM NOT NOW HAVING THE STAR DELIVERED TO MB Lior ono EO wAlesO narynnro ae TigondtoPnsTH Oy FVe oN AAO Cee ene re womahiee: senastemeere oi] COMANCHE Ca Cn HTT [AAsrees + | phone AA RE Seen eee ee ee en ne ee ees Mesa Eten SEs meet Oe mt mt Od O9E8 HO Ht Ot OO Oee as a ee CT ATT eS TCT SULT STL UT OTUs eS eae LMILLLLeau ITALIC UTI Ca Z HI The Schoo! Bu Wditor The 1 wish to thank you kindly for the splendid support accorded the school building pro, We are end: enaible, ¢ am by The Star. avoring to work out a building pro. neervative Editor The Star Why not give credit due? The 1. W. W. what the federal dry squad and po. Noe could not do tn a year all the protected gambling Joints south of Yesler w Joints that the federal people re time after time, that the police pi tected, are now closed and loc jay and sent the word out tha will not open again until the “ bly” strike is over where ft ts did in one hour cloned up MET COTM RSS TAT TT TTT bootlegxing and 1 i ied OR Editor The Star Perhaps u have noticed the string of automobiles that flock the highways week-enda, a large number of whom are laden with flowering dog-wood. Perhaps you also realize hat in order to got branches of this beautiful flower that trees have to be chopped down and otherwise de- atroyed The dog-wood when picked never ven, Moet of it in dead before it reaches the homes which it is sup: poned to decorate and water never revives it, Editor The Star: Several days ago I read tn your paper that 75 per cont of the sugar sold went to making home brew, moonshine Mquor, eta If that tw true, ist the retufl merchants refuse to sell sugar except in emall quan tites unless accompanied by a ntate inent defining what the sugar asked ‘or wan to be uned for, and signed by a genuine mignature, I fall to see what a hourewlyvew boycott will amount to if they are only getting 25 per cotn of the to tal arnount sold, and the above pro- cadure will at least tell who got the wumer, Furthermore, why not allow I. W W's to distribute circulars when they print the truth in them? Take & census of the people as they speak thelr real beliefs to each other, and I believe few will say that to keop | Editor The Star: Last year Mra. George A. Smith en- against the vocational department, which you were kind enough to print In the Yale Review of April, 1923, an excellent article on “Education in | Engiand.” by H. A. L. Fisher, preat- dent of the board of education in England (a cabinet position), says the following about vocational train- ing? “Curtously enough, the all-pervad- ing utilitarianiam of the age finds no reflection in the programs of organ- feed labor, Our Inbor leaders profess the highest educational doctrine, |They contend that there should be one form of teaching for the rich and | poor alike, “In particular, they distrust vooa- the wage-slave mind, and to increase the emoluments of the slave-driving employer. Consequently when the act of 1918 was passing thru pariia- ment, the labor party asserted with great emphasis that the teaching In the continuation schools should be | untainted by any vocational or prac- tical bias, Humane learning, broad, generous, calculated to nourish the free citizen, rather than fit the hand and eye of the manual worker to his destined task, should be the charac- teristic of adolescent education.’ Then follows a paragraph, which UTP TTT COTS Lo LCE CW eco COME Eee Ee i i Editor The Star: I do not know all the intricacies of the much-talkedof *‘zoning sys- tem'’—I was about to say much-ils- cussed ‘zoning system'—but this would be a misnomer, for the discus- sion seems pretty much one-sided, and we are instructed on the beauty and consequent desirability of hav- Jing certain sorts and sizes of build- ings in one place and certain others in another. ‘While this ‘zoning is a matter which will materially affect every home or real estate owner in Seattle, and in more ways than one, the will or desire of the majority on the mat- ter aro very little consulted. To be sure, various clubs and soctal organi- zations which really represent a very small per cent of the people, have indorsed the movement, But tho mat. ter which concerns us all fully as vitally as the street car question seems about to be passed upon us, whether we wish it or not by @ small group of council members. In our own private business af- fairs, we usually count the cost of an enterprise, but T hear no refor- ence in this matter to the expense except that this zoning commission has served “without compensation."* How literal this is may he ques tioned since some of the commission at least are public and paid city em- ployes. If their service is ‘‘free,'* items connected with it are not, of which little or no mention is made, We learn that already some thou sands of dollars of your money and mine havo been spent in exploiting this plan, and if T correctly under: stand, an office and officer aro al- ready under city employ to forward the interests of this business, “We, or some ot us, complain of our burden of taxes and many have thrown back to the city their hold- ings, or rather lost them, because of the overweight, but I venture to guess that when this now burden ts added, now victims will be added to the LUst of overburdened taxpayers. CTT CTT eo cee TTT OUTTA TTT TEES TET) (An Open Letter to the Mayor and the Clty Council: on Street Car Passes), Seattle, May 10, 1923. To the Mayor and Members of the City Council: i T have received from the mayor a lotter under date of Maroh 20, 1928, vigwyn ” eT Says Give L. W. W. the Credit Thoughts on Vocational Education tered a protert to the school board| tional training, as tending to form The Proposed Zoning System What the Pass System Might Do ilding Progra: | pert you have given will help us to | Very sincerely yours, | THOMAS RK. COLE, ' Superintendent, | Tho J. W. W. even caused @ gam bling house on Third ave. something the three K's could not do, and cloned the gambling in all oft drink card rooms north of Yesler, as the police couldn't let run and see the joints south of Yesler way closed, no the squad protecting these joints sent word to close until the | “crazy wobbliien” left town. We taxi rivers know this is the truth, Yours respectfully ©. CURTTIUGRT, 9010 Kleventh Ave. & W, to clone Cutting the Flowering Trees | We have a great dearth of wild) flowers in this particular vicinity. | | The dog wood, fire-weed, rhododen- | |dron, wild currant, trillium and vio-| lets. The rhododrendron only grows in tsolated spots and is probably pretty well extinct by this time. It seems a pity that. the people can- not reall: that this ruthless destruc- tion is unquestionably wrong and| that wild flowers of thin kind are| more beautiful seen from the auto-| mobile than they are in the home} dead. Very truly yours, | G T. CONSTANTINE. | | A Sugar Boycott Suggestion Jor invoke the syndicaliam law now is righteous, or to keep political prisoners penned ts the wish of the | people, and the fact that the mon- jority held shows the class that holds the retna, and an long as there is class in this country, there will |be trouble, whether they are pro. |eressives, labor unions or farmers, | W. W's, farm bureau members, | Nonpartisan league members and| many other organizations it amounts! to the same thing—they are all afte1) | better conditions for humanity—and| when they realize that the object ts | the same and they all unite there will be an end to strikes, boycotts, polit- |ica! parties, eto. The best for all will| win. Majority will be a fact, not an |tdle dream. Very respectfully, MRS. C. D, GREEN, R. 6, Box 45, Mt Vernon, Wash. demonstrates that the cupidity of parents influences thelr decision in regard to their children much more than @ broad interest in their gen- eral welfare: “These views prevailed with parila- | ment, but It may be doubted whether they were really popular among the rank and file of the industrial work- ers, who would rather see their chil- dren taught a trade, than embued with all the enchantment of the lib- eral arta” , . . “The modern parent comes to the elementary school on ‘Parents’ day’| | and looks to !t as a very convenfebt| employment agency, as indeed it {s,| |when the time comes for Tom or | Gladys to go to work." | ‘This article is quoted now, as very| timely, in view of the fashion shows, | bte., which are being pulled off by the schools, demonstrating ‘higher edu- cation’ (7), as educators see it. | These shows are bad enough in| themselves, as centering the pupils’) j minds upon all vanity, and making jthe subject of dress more important | than improvement of the mind, but] there are also reports that much de-| celt and hypocrisy has been indulged | in—so that the whole subject of yo-| | cational training, as objected to by | Mrs. Smith, deserved the considera- | tion of all interested patrons of the schools, MRS, ANNE B, STEWART, 720 Nob Hill. Ave. | Several costs will be inevitable In connection with this clamp and lim. itation upon property rights. In the first place this system will require much time of a number of | men to map out, systematize and de. scribe—and then later add always there’ must be a number of men to attend to the Inspection of buildings and lots, that zoning rules be obeyed. There will, of course, be expense of maps and printed copies of zoning lawa, besides the added cost in every sale of real estate, connected with adding zoning rules to the abstract. You may say that the present building department will attend te the matter “without need of addi tional employes.” This would be impossible, unless the present engi- neers’ department has much dle time on its hands, Otherwise, a list of inspectors must be added to the elty's payroll, Thru this system, the city is Mke- ly to be cramped tn its growth and development. Many manufacturing and business enterprises which would bring citizens, development and taxes would, thru the zoning sys- tem, be lost to the community and city. We already have sufficient laws and limitations to furnish em. ployment to a force of inspectors. By adding a few more regulations regarding garages and obnoxious buildings, I think ‘our city would continue to make progress without need ofa mapped-out zoning sys tem for somo time to come, I urge you, fellow citizens, to look into and study this matter of zoning careful. ly, and {f, upon investigation, you feel convinced, as I do, that the zon- Ing move is a bad one, utter your storm of protest so loudly that its sound shall reach the council cham. ber of the city hall, Let us know and count the cost of this business: before burdening further. our al. ready heavy tax -bils, and let us stilt be truly American by haying representation when we have trxa- ton, A. ZW. replying to my open letter addressed to you is the adoption of a higher car pass systom, "“he mayor states: “My mind is open in this matter and T have not been able to convince my- self that it (the pass) would be a The mayor's open-mindedness has Some More Letters | come TO THIS SALE From Star Readers | and share in this big stock AUCTION Together with thousands of pairs of high-grade Men's, Women’s and Children’s Shoes, making possible one of the |GREATEST SHOE SALES EVER HELD IM SEATTLE snes 91.98 Allleather Shoes, Petery’ make, fues. “Auction gale Price, $1.98, $6 Men’s Shoes | Ladies’ Black and brown. Canvas Peters’ $6 value of Peters’ Shoes bought at TENNIS SHOES JOC Men's and Boys’ Tennis Shoes and Oxfords, heavy red rubber sole—a $2.00 value White} $4 Boys’ Shoes 1 bu le SHOCS | rect cu teathery ute $2.98 | 98¢ | $1.98 rims 9 1.98 Pumps & w Kid or Patent 1-Strap Slippers and} Shoes. Pumps, Sale Price $1.98, Satin Pumps $2 98 Ladies’ Brown and Black Satin | ¢yiee8 Inboring clase are the big ma-|Pumps, French and military heel. form lust; $7.50 value, for $3, Wonderful Values Women's Brown Kid Strap Pumps, Peters’ make, $5.00 value— $2.98 98¢c sida AVE lied me to add a few more reasons to lump sum so far as the pass feature” thore given in my letter of March 17, based upon observations I have made, why the dollar. reek pass system would be profitable to us as well as| With any rate of fare you might. advantageous to patrons. The mayor, when campaigning, promised the people a 5-cent fare. Ae has fulfilled that promise, and the council has supported him thruout. Court rulings since he made his promise prohibit levying againet the general fund to make good any deficit, so now the only move open to you In the adoption of a higher fare to be in effect till such time as business conditions may permit a re- duction, : 5 One depending on car service for transportation to and from his em- ployment finds the present fare quite desirable, but when the matter of the good name, the credit of Seattle, or the success of our munictpal-owned and operated railways are at stake, I feel that all of us should join hands with an administration inclined to make good in the matter of public ownership in assisting to solve our problems. On my last trip East, wherever I went, I found what we call an “im. possible contract” was well—too well —advertised. I consider such pub- Melty has done Seattle more real dam- age than the total cost of our rail- ways. If the people of Seattle had had my experience upon this trip, and had also left in their makeup a bit of that old “Seattle spirit.” they would advise you to set the car fares at a rate that would lay the ghost of repudiation that has been spread abroad in the land by unfavorable ad- vertising. Let us taboo this “impossible con- tract” stuff. Let us say to the world that hold- ers of Seattle's securities shall receive par, with interest, for every dollar in- vested here. Let us not consider the contract impossible, but rather the 5-cent fare is impossible to meet the provisions of the contract. This is the honest, manly and business-like way to han- dle our rail deal, Transportation Is a thing for sale. Let us handle it as a merchant does a business. Advertise. Offer spectal inducements. As a special induce- ment may I propose the adoption of the dollar-a-week pass system. The following are ai few of the things which might be done to stimu- late patronage, in addition to those mentioned in my last letter: 1.—Our larger business houses might furnish a weekly pass to cus- tomers whose trade equals a given amount. 2.—Outlying shops purchase sev- eral passes each week for rent, (This is done at Tacoma. A pass rents for a three-hour period for a charge of 10 cents. Equivalent to a 5-cent fare if returned within the designated pe- riod.) 3.—A night worker may go to and from his work, daily, and his wife use the pass when shopping. ‘ 4.—Issue half-rate passes instead of tickets, if desired. 4 §.—Provides' the best plan {n vogue anywhere for use on surface railways under one-man operation. (You have adopted the one-man operation.) 6.—Eliminates . transfers, . tickets, tokens and all of the red. tape con- nected therewith, or every pass used. 7—Would produce a revenue of more than $20,000. daily, if only one- half of the present car patrons pur- chased a wookly pass. Moreover, you could carry the remaining half free and still have a revenue of about $8,- 000,000 above the former 8 1-8-cent |! faro. &—Your roventia be produned In a Men’s Shoes Men's $1.98 Heavy Scout or Work Auction Sale Price, Satur vd Men’s Shoes $3.98 : Men's Fine Vici Kid Shoes, foot Gray Quarter. Regular $4.00 values re - Men’s tan Oxfords, Eng- — lish last, worth $7.50. .$2.98 "SUPPERS 9OC ALL SIZES E STORE CORNER sUNION is concerned. upon. 4 Lly submitted, H. ALVIN MOORE, 2410 Third Ave. We POINTS MADE BY POETS One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of ‘man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. —Wm. Wordsworth, ——— eee GORNS. Doesn't hurt a bit! 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