The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1923, Page 10

‘This is the flustes > pe ne atavies by | ustrates the samo polnt, It is | Fiat Soe the same in ali heavy farm prod. al apectaliaing in’ ta economlen ucts for yearn Ceiling how the furm- The EschCummins law al er can be reacted from the per= GeaAeLHE ‘vaities neeee. Hous situation that confronts lowed th railways to charg btm today. frelghts high enough so that i | they could pay dividends on a | huge assumed valuation, ‘The rates were advanced in exactly the manner which would have by a man who BY HERBERT QUICK HE first great slice out of the | farmer's molon is taken by | the railways, It is freight, I been adopted have an orchard in West Wr | Wanted to destroy tho farmers, ginia. Before tho Esch.Cummins | The Advances were horizontal. Tite veas passed I used to t No effort was made to discover ihe: well apples and poachor- What commodities could carry tomatoes . from my .cannery—as the Increased load, RATE INCREAS) SHOULD HAVE BEEN DIVIDED The farmer ships heavy com: modities in the main—wheat, cotton, ‘all the grains, lve stock, frult, vegetables are heavy and cheap, They cannot bear high Now the freight rates are so Righ that cither I should get Hothing for the products, or the consumer would be charged J prices ho would, refuse to pay. The North Dakota farmer who shipped a car of potatoes to St Paul and got back, after freight | Was pald, the sum of nine cents, | | far away as Cincinnati, | i} | | freight rates, On tho other hand, the farm. ers bu) heavy stuff from the fac E OVER RAIL fertilizers, lumber, machinery, Ilme, All this comes to him loaded with the horixontally-ad- need freight rates under the Each-Cumming law Mero tories fencing, coal, farm vehloles. sense would have dictated to those advancing the ratos, if they had to be ad vanced, that some ought to have been made much higher and some even lowered, A farmer pays perhaps 25 cents freight*on Kis suit of clothes, He could af. ford to pay $5 on that, if he could have'had his old rate on fertile ers. It would pay any wise rail way company to haul fertilizera to any neighborhood needing common + thom free of freight, rather than not have’ them used. A transportation sy to be run for service tlon-—for service to country m Ought to the na» city and Our raliway system has al: waya boon run purely for mor ey-making, Whon a country ts new, the only way in which a rallway 6 ean prosper tt by tho way of upbullding the country railways which thelr rates to lev els which agrigtulture could stand; but the rates are fixed alike for all of them by the in torstate commerce commission, They are fixed so that the ove hore are might lower oupitalized, vadiy built, badly run, bidly located roads nay have a chance to mako their bad investments good. What iy the way out? ‘The way out is to look on the rail ways just we do on other businesses, so long as they are run for profit, Nobody suggests that congress enact a law that will guarantee any favtory, or any bank, or any store, or The Seattle Star \_ Published Datly by The Star Publishing Co. 1307 Beventh Ave, Phone Main 0 Newspaper Enterprise Arsoctation and United Press Service, ail, OUL Of city, bdo per month, 3 montha $1.60, ¢ months $2.00, year 68 By. carrier, city, 6c a month. Gliman, ‘Nicol! & Ruthman, Spectal _effice, Monadnock Bidg.; Chicago office, Tribune Bid ‘Canadian Pacitic Ridg.; Boston office, Tremont Bids. How ’Bout It, Buddies? ¥ is ORD. comes from the White House that President i Coolidge will not protest the return of the former ‘Kaiser to Germany, nor the restoration of a monarchy With him on the throne. "Oh, well, we don’t suppose !t does make much differ- ence. We only spent $22,625,252,843 licking the kaiser; “raised 5,000,000 soldiers; sent 2,000,000 overseas; lost 07,284 men, counting those who died over here; lent over $10,000,000,000 to allied countries to help them fight the kaiser, most of which we'll never get back; and a few -mMore little things like that. _ True, we were told that our quarrel was not with the » + German people, but with the kaiser. * And every dough- © boy who braved the U-boat-infested seas to reach the » well-known Flanders field was inspired with the vision » that he personally was going to “get” the kaiser. America w ser and all the went to the ser menace Representatives San Francisco Now York office, In fact, the whole war, so far ‘cerned, seemed to hinge upon the k: " represented. As to the Crusades, our boy far side of the world to rid mankind of the k and “make the world safe for democracy.” T one inspiring thought; that was what the war bout. It helped the Goughboy on his marches; it flavored his bully beef; it softened the sting of homesickness; it ‘alone made the blooming war worth while. And now, they say, it doesn’t matter. We are not in- x terested in the kaiser any more. Let him come back if he likes. We should worry! Oh, well, maybe it doesn’t matter. Ho, hum! Let's "talk of something really important—taxes, for example. " Wonder how long we'll be paying for the war? A newspaper essayist has felt called on to write a long article on “Subtle Schemes for Safe Cellars—How to Remove the Curse of the Coal Bin and the Anguish of the Ashes and Make the Furnace Room a Heaven Under Earth.” A careful reading of it fails to discover that it “suggests anything to annoy Roy Haynes, as was confidently expected. Murphy, Taggart and Brennan, democratic bosses, are worried lest the McAdoo boom get out of hand. They believe in the theory that the ‘Voters should pick the candidate, but draw the line at putting it into ice. ‘The increasing popularity of one-arm lunch-room chairs, peanuts and "popcorn is cited as proof of the forward march of civilization in Africa, - The “Dark Continent” seems to be almost ripe for a Sinclair Lewis. ‘There is something about your town to be proud of, if you Just look for it. For instance, Washington, D. C., has found that food prices have Anereased there more than in any other American city. It’s a Wild, Wild World! HOSE who have been wont to assert that “this is the ; life,” are too gay—that’s all. Life is all wild now, and nothing else but. John Bilsonger, Chicago sportsman, “is under the care of a physician on a ranch near O'Neill, Neb., suffering from painful bru’ Bear bite him? No. Wild buffa- loes trample him? Nix. Hootch floor him? Not any. Automobile skid over him? Nay. Worse and far more terrifying. He was “attacked by a flock of infuriated wild ducks!” Yessir. Red-head ducks! He had to fight for his life, and is just as sore as he can be. Tf you don’t believe him he can show you his footprints in the mud where he stood at bay. He had wounded a brant, he explains without a blush, and it squawked. Im- mediately the great flock of geese, reinforced by those fiery red-heads, swooped down on him and gave him their bills in French style. Only after a most desperate con- flict, and not until he had been severely victimized by the quacks, was he able to escape and call the doctors.» It experience—he'll say it was. irie chickens in Kansas, man-drowning , man-chasing red squirrels in New York, obits in Idaho, and ferocious woodchucks q in Pennsylvania, coupled with red-head ducks that rush right into the very muzzle of a gun and swat the hunter in the face, we appear to be up against life that is in the Midst of death. We had better begin to chain our cana- ries. We can’t afford to take desperate chances. Leif Jones, English prohibiti wants to keep liquor away from all persons under 90 years of age. Good idea. Thus people will guard their health carefully in order that they may live to be 90 and mor nis A Los Angeles man sought divorce because his wife objected to the noise he le while eating celer: He should have lived in Pittsburg, where ali eaters are expected to make themselves heard. It may be true, as claimed, that football is seriously interfering with college work, but think what would happen if college work interfered with football! “Nobody cares what I say,” admits Andy Volstead, thereby setting an example of self-appraisal that could be followed elsewhere with no end of profit. ITIES—weakest link in our system of government, as i Bryce long ago pointed out—are gradually moving toward efficiency. In our count 314 cities now are operating under the commission-manager form of govern- ment. Only four have abandoned the system since it was originated 15 years ago. The old-fashioned politician is inevitably headed for the museum to join the spinning wheel and horse car. We are discovering that government is merely a form of business, a problem in management. Will Hays wants President Coolidge to approve a plan for the preserva tion of motion picture films of historie events in American politics, A film entitled “The Senate Voting on Newberry’s Right o Hi be an excellent reminder for voters. Seat” would The wet trend in Cana ition, fx as go so far from home to fin where several provinces have gone back on 6 s back-stiding? Poland and the United States Invisible entangling alliance are now linked up by radio, for the isolationists to shout out Another against! Congress may prove to be so bad that it will wring a few words from the president. Who knows? x | They « ence Is closely r When ft HIS SCIENCE Prize Turtle Oldest Living Thing. Science Guards 'Em. The olde world st living creatures tn the pagce. | tortion inct and » ing the few that in a dozen in 2008, nt cities, The reason is because they have immunity to dine If nd what ft Is in the blood that kills disease germs 1 be able to apply this know yman Several ight that great a B neces: of eae’ ath ary turtles amall rtles have prac are off the jumerou heir me hat of th o be # Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White House Job a ee DAVID I'~ HOUSTON, and business man A ator Monroe 1 Member Un faculty, teach re of treasury 1920 Presl Jent Bell ecurities com New York. Catarrh, Dry Nose, Conghs, Bneezing. Deafnens, Hend Note he, Bore Influenza. KONDO! inneapolis, DNDON'S |[Minzeapot REWARD FOR VALOR OUBLE CROSS _ SMILES five bill the United States ove dollars a year, which even me The low value of German mark will build a strong race about two men to carry a Some people neem to have m fo burn. In Atlant a man igarets with ten oar t Newn from th Africa. They have started playing golf. This is real golf, not African golf. STA | Phit Sheftall has retired. Phil was * Pullman a lot of argul Ww boy of 13 has en. man, probably claims his cane Our most hunters are Two post 1914, Va. Do the ¢ cards mailed June 1 in Har tmas mailing early sonbu n (Neb) co’ m flirting with bar married stenogs. How Actrean was arreste ressing on the street. Why not the street if they ¢ Jo It at home? Young Texas woman Is 1 fc er life, Don’t worry h o 4 g00d looking You men ¢ many formerly read ‘about many formerly poor and just a or men dying rich foller's gt nk clerk ull about counting nd-ne Ho mone phew has be. hould know w York traff 4 [ A Thought The eye cannot say unto the hand I have no need of thee 1 the head to the fe of yout. Cor, xii of kr nor again T have no need N° degree ledge attainable by man is able to set him above the wants of hourly assistance THE SEATTLE STAR ROADS; SAVE FARMERS URGES If any thought of the public service hid been given to the de HERBERT QUICK money because they are lurgely {n government control now, and mirn dividends, on badly in any farm, or even ¢ whall peni mont every part of the country. It would give the farmers some- vested or over-diuyvested capital velopment of transportation, the thing like a breathing spell their rates are likely to be cut or of an assumed value, Such railways would have been built to GOVERNMENT CONTROL wh ‘er u congress comes into @ businesses have to take thelr connect with every available 18 ONLY WAY OUT power which desires.to cut them. lowes, They are worth exuotly waterway, For water rates I wish I could ace some way to But the United States could do what they ean earn dividends where there in good depth ure Avold government ownership, but | these things. It could get the upon, and no more Profitable to boats at one-tenth there iy no other way. And the | Money at low rates. It could wet Ho with many ratlways, In the rail rate wiai ts avold sa)"aHariall aisowe up its great Giant Power com jut the capitalization of the The greatest: inland witerwuy ardly 0 y | pany, Jt could use all the equip. poor ones should be scaled down in the world should run from the Here 1x our situation | ment as a unit, a» McAdoo did in wor as to put them on an equal Atlantic thru the heart of the | At least $10,000,000,000 ix need the war, It could use all the ity with the best roads, and continent, thru the St, Lawrence od to rehabilitate the railways; | terminals Jointly a% McAdoo did, rates lowered no ax to allow and the Minslistpp!, from Mon- and to electrify them wh , It could throw to the poor roads them to earn returns on those treal to New Orleans, Tho Ohlo thelr share of work, It could noed it, and to pro values only and its branches should feed it ways co-ordinating with them make the railways and the water: AILWAY PROBLEM The Missourt should feed it at will take a# much more, I sup: ways one system, IN OUR LIFE t as far as Omaha pose, Th things we must And I think the government reat railway problem tm nven at present rates this have. that runs the postoffice so well the deopest, almost, in our life, would add about 10 cents a The railways cannot sell stock could do it at # waving which Can a great life be lived by a bushel to the price of wheat in for thelr share of this when in would be the salvation of the na- rreat peo n A reat continent when that life ix dependent on | land transport? No other civilize tion of history has done tt, We have yet to answer thin question, | the interior, and would increase the farmer's share of prices on hin other products accordingly, cheapen. coal in a greater propor: Uon, and make living easier in al- private re ton, main in private water | way end of it may as well be bid- den good-bye, except for few | projects, They cannot raise the | handa; 1 (in his next article Mr, Quick will discuss co-operative market- ing). HOPE EBBING IN EUROPE BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS on European policy. ash at every turn, At ‘ance wants a weak WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. — Hope ts fant ebbing that the earthquake now rattling the Old solutely They ¢ bottom F side the mark. The entente was when F ‘The bre: really went into the Ruhr, ruptured nee World to its foundations will Germany which cannot thyade | stop before clvilization is pre- has only widened since. her again, and England wants a sented with” another bath in new Germany with a big bank blood. is that France and England are account and purchasing pbwer, The one is vital to France, the other is necessary to England. England, too, can dispense with the small percentage of rep- n arations she stood to get from a Germany. France can never re- cover and pay her debts unless SB Ta, DTAT she gets all that is v coming to a J her. I | The dispute is not so much Noy, 24, 1924, Talk of the Franco.British en- tente being tn the balance is be- openly and dangerously hostile. England and France differ ab- { | The outstanding fact of today | | LETTER V RIDGE Dear Avridge Mann: | sheer bullheadedness ay it is a | matter of life and death for Last Monday night in Star Ay see yare you ban sending call for me, Yust you call vonce and don't repeat—Ay sure skall be there med bode fect! Ay not forgetting long ago you try to help me find en beau; but till Ay find vun yuat lke you, Ay paddle still my own canoe! Lars, Ole, Bven and Nels and Pete—dose fallers all med me ban sveet. All ban gude guys, but holy yee! Not vun ban cut much fee med me. Ay not ban fall for dumbbell men—for Ay like vun who sling a pen! Most all us ladies ban the sume; yust look at West Seattle dame—she old and but yet she tink you ban en awful classy gink! Ay know you got vun wife, which ban enough, life! Don't tink Ay bust up happy home, and maybe get vun busted dome! Ay not ban vamp med yel- jow streak; Ay yust be friend. (But oh, you sheik) HULDA (R. M. R., Seattle) Dear Hulda: Ay yust vun vord have got to say: ven far avey!” gude “Ve all look France and the difference be- tween prosperity and penury for England. I say England, because the question is English rather then British. Out of the smoke of battle a new balance of power in Europe is beginning to loom, with Eng- Germany, Austria ¢, Belgium, F hhoslovakia, Roumania and Sooner or later there will h unless some powerful ting force takes a hand. ver happens, there can be no real fighting before spring. Armies cannot move in mud, But one of the blackest winters Eu- han a movie star makes. 44 years, which is bet he in behind i in New York rope has known in years lies ahead. @ The uncertainty of what to- morrow may bring forth is the very ence of the situation in Europe tod Tax Reduction or Bonus? A head-on collision in the new Congress between advocates of the bonus and cham- pions of tax reduction is made inevitable, most observers agree, by Secretary Mellon’s letter, stating flatly that we can lighten our burden of taxation next year by more than $300,000,000, or we can pay the proposed Federal “adjustment compensation” to ex- service men of the World War, but that we can not do both. ~ Which horn of the dilemma shall Congress choose? Public opinion, as reflected in editorials and statements in the press, seems to be divided at present into three groups. One—apparently the largest, or at least the most vocal—demands tax reduction and is willing to let the bonus go; another demands bonus legislation, and is willing to surren- der tax reduction for it; and a third sees no reason why we can not haye both. 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