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eee ee ere eres ets iE SEATTLE STAR y a a The Seattle Star |7 owners and continent from a It would make use “sand un are et Dally by The Star Publishing Co, {e Barents Ave, Phone J do not belleve in land nation: x 4 Unt ote Ber’ Alization, Yet that is the scheme crown without compensation, | necessary most or of obp wall oust ea Ege Whe bh Year WA, * which i# easiest put across by ought not to shrink from redeem: | taxes on Improvements, on pere “Nioslt @ Ruthman, Spectal Representatives, fan Francisco aye. youre, foiling how the farm= politicians struggling with mere ing woclety by cheapening land | vonal property, on goods in com. ty" ook Bide.) Chicago effics, Trib ida.) New York offios, i Atlan Uthat esntiente. poultioes on the ulcer they are thru taxation, Not if our lite de merce, and on incomes, We pi ie Bldg; Boston of hin today. called upon to treat. pends on it-—-and it does, should have to wait and pee ‘The conservative citizen has by this time, 1 suppose, ceased to read thene lettera, or is Just look- ing them over to seo what new enormity I shail suggest. And yet, hoping that some of them | may still honor me with thelr no: tloe, I shall write this last para graph or Ko to the conservative whether or not economic rent would amount to all the revenues ot all kinds which we require. but it would at once, in the enor. mous impulse which would be given to improvements, create a new era of prosperity, the bene. fits of which to mont of the con. wervative citizens would be vast. LAND NATIONALIZATION WOULD NOT WORK And yet land nationalisation, an it would have to be carried out under American institutions, would not work, For the land would have to be paid for in tax» ation, and the burden of taxa- BY HERBERT QUICK pronanur readers are aston: ished when I adsert that nothing buta new system of tax ation or the sweeping system of land nationalization will afford tho relief which agriculture must Strange Hobbies ‘HE world’s greatest collection of fleas is presented to the British museum, whose officials register exquis- _ ite delight. These fleas were collected by the late Nathaniel Roths- titles, Land would be sold, in- And it is just, What i * have in America, They may tion would be as hard to bear as herited and passed from hand createst belongs to soe child, head of the famous Togsantbanktng family. think that either «uggostion isa | the burden of rent it would re: | to hand just as now. ation if \t cares. 10 take. citizen whove land will be cheap- | ly greater than thelr profits, Rothschild took great pride in his fleas. He ransacked perfectly absurd and revolution- place, ‘The mere proposal to buy It would take from no man our present system of taking ened and probably made to rep- present or prospective, from the Expense was no object. * He even ary one, all the land and place it n the any value which he has person. from the people a part-of what resent a lows when my plan is value of the bare land. 1 can the world for them. gent a costly expedition into the Far North to get a speci- only hint at these benefits. For, of course, the nystem would af. carried out, Compared with what will al- Think & moment, We are in hands of users of land would ¢x- ally created, All land values aro they Individually create in wrong, this world. ‘The world is chang: clte ridicule, creations of society; it in only Render unto the individual the men of moe an annoys & aha Loa taseae byes i ing, We find our baste industry On tho other hand, the impoal- the improvements which are in- things which are the individual's, most certainly come upon us in fect lands in cities and towns ag Strange things happen in world vaudeville, but rarely agriculture going down to tion of all taxation on the value dividual creations, and they and unto the collectivity the a generation or #o if this taxa well as in the country. ruin. ‘This means the sime ruin of the bare land exclusive of im: would be freed from taxation. things which are the collectiy- tion plan is not adopted, it i And the conservative citizen must remember that this easen- truly conservative, It conserves tially conservative plan may what is good and destroys what provements Is something which could be done without any bast that has always come to people who disintegrate under economics Under this system the universal polloy of land users would be to ity's, And the values takenein taxa- ES stranger than this hobby of the rich banker. speaks Arthur F, Samme, Englishman, calling at- wn peculi ection— . He ten “ss i t ular enn ae pa gin eh evil. And this is what has | changes in our institutions, ovcupy Jand of as Kmail value as tlon are never pald for thru tax- | Js bad. dt taken from you, Mr, | take the place of something else, has ifferent specimens, and he boas at it too brought changes in the land ays: It would cheapen land and possible and place on it the ation, The very suggestion in Conservative Citizen, nothing 1t is a plan based on economics, _ years to acquire them. tems of all the countries which make it a thing which the werk- maximum of improvements, This absurd, The cheapening of land which individual enterprise or lw And it will work bor has created, but only what yoclety as a whole has produced -—the unearned increment of land | values. | would neem a hardship to some, and to some it, of course, really would be a hardship; but we, who have taken slaves from their means more houses, livestock, barns, drainage, fertilizers and personal property, and fewer half-used or idle areas, If the Pilgrims Had Started Thanksgiving Day in 1923 have been upset by recent con vulsions—convulsions which are not over, but which haye just begun. SMILES Only safe place for a specder ts the Sahara desert, where roads are as wide as they are long. Statistics show that, much to the cow's disgust, the people are eating more beef. ers could afford to use; for it would make the value of the im- provements the purchase price, It would make no change in the Samme claims, with dignity and confidence, that he is the world’s greatest authority on match boxes. No doubt. In two ways, it’s a striking hobby. Man’s instinct for accumulation is, in its simpler form, the quality or virtue known as thrift. Carried to ex- _tremes, to its logical conclusion, it is responsible for some sald being too rich at the expense of others who remain poor. Many a millionaire will smile at Mr. Samme collecting match boxes or Mr. Rothschild collecting rare fleas. But the match boxes and fleas have benefited their owners about as much as excessive possession of dollars benefits ___ the extremely rich. A queer animal, at times, is man. (in his next article Mr. Quick talks about the social aspects of the farmers’ ease.) LETTERS S2EDITOR % Remember the Postmen Editor The Star: fuel and a few clothes for the chil This Thursday in a downpour of | dren had beeh purchased. There was rain I saw a postman trudging along | Never any money left for her to buy When making marmalade, it ts easier to go buy the stuff, ie? In justice to Rothschild, it must be admitted that his hobby did the world a little good, since fleas spread dis- eases and a knowledge of them is obviously valuable. tion to split about something. A political party t# an organiza Washington scientists produced a/ with an enormous pack of mail on his back. I watched him climbing | one flight + another of steep stairs to deliver one lett Iasked him how he managed to lanything with. I just wonder if the patrons along the long line of deliveries ever stop to think of the burdens of the poor | postman. Which is more than can be said of some collections of dollars 2 Christmas is drawing near and one may see the postman eager to deliver the packages on time. I haye no HT temperature 425 degrees below zero, | | but it is not for sale. } keep his children in school on his | meager wages, He hesitated, then told me how his wife at home had Coolidge and Albert Johnson reported to have agreed on census of 1890 as basis for immigration quota. Why not go back to 1790 and bar ‘em all Every time we see a headline from | out but the Irish? i n a ag worn the same dress and coat for | steps to climb at my home, but ob, | French Lick, we wonder if It means five years, Never had she been able |™y neighbor's stairs! French Lick, Germany. to buy new shoes—everything was| Let's not forget our postmen, ‘The lowest order of animal life is represented by the dog-polsoner and the annoymousletter writer. There is no question about their descent, A PATRON. second-hand, after the rent, light and’ “Yes, We Have Oddles of Em” |Editor ‘The Star; | persistently We Have No Bana Joytutl: The who breaks | iy Yea, We Oo! kings and throws parliaments to the Have Oodles of We would like to grow up and be| a taxi driver and get paid for going out riding. There are 59,063,830 silver dollars jin cireulation, all going about 60/ miles an hour | Votes, Brains and Dollars 'W YORK state finds its election cost an everage of $1.18 for each vote cast. One city holds the figure to 34 cents. Another runs as high as $1.5 Even this highest figure would be eheap, if votes were cast intelligently—which they rarely are. Monarchists are ruled by kings, democracies by gulli- great Mussolini, exclaimed, Bananas!” laeh heaps as mes, most {humbly begged President Coolidge to | | permit 200,000 starving Italians to | — Hleave their overcrowded country and come to the H. C. HENSEL, Seattle, ponenssenonconcuenencses no waste-there’s peo rind Je moonlight now and then {| will mar the best of men. iy Ses TeR? | MA 4 | “Bolshevinm,” says a funn bility. ling man, “is a skin disease, te ELECTR bananas. to : : seliits } stead. Costa ipa 15,000,000 u i & The Stokes divorce case having degenerated to = mere whiff, we now | pyshermen are not the laziest men | jatend. to ¥ turn expectantly to whatever may be turned up by the diggers at Sodom | , Is economical , and Gomorrah. It ought to be snappy.¢ year country are even too Some men 0 go fishing. We will not war, but several na to make the old one o Only a few more Christmas lazy | | bread-fruit, and ywhup of all the ed could have product of this Monroe Doctrine has tivation for a hun- nm tragic to comic, in the world that so Bananas—and Advertising HAT popular song about bananas greatly stimulated the sale of that particular fruit, according to the Wall Street Journal. This was the case in our country. And appetite for bananas is increasing also in England as the song gains popularity over there. Mighty is the power of suggestion. Mightier is the power of repetition. A significant tip for advertisers. | been }land tha protected from dred years. Fr every country unti! paydays Wouldn't This is the age of speed it be great after Thanksgiv A hen in Amb sgn in one ye Sundays and 11 if Christmas came right 5? HEARD ON THE TRAIN ot ed something at last, and no one sor is hard. 5 Poor, old Doc Cook. He has disco’ _ €an deny him. The way of the trans, | o men in the smoker was} Milkmen are Strikes uh} : to chur Potential rand happened to cut hina Our Changing Ways A rere gn Presidents a ber on Somiirines ax Gl 1 home dulled as spiritually we grow more sensitive. town was Mr N and he ; E eyesight of birds is over 100 times as powerful as | there are so many ways not to do rae Lesson in Dake TF human sight. And birds are blind compared with |'t *"1 *° fe™ ways to do raid Ei cakeal ee Can Be Predicted. sk te wanda eke fotos | on. Astronomers say we will have no Who'd Like White Eliminate Danger. jonally of the ministers in the | had Birds also have phenomenal hearing. Pheasants in in 86,000,000 years. Others say Actas Jot - England during the war became alarmed by vibrations t is $6,000,001 years too long. . 2D Out of the renewed study of earth. many « talk with old man Moss on In the primitive state, man probably had his five senses |», st the law haps the ont: fall from. grace, One Gay. Moss was Many times keener than today. Physically we become | nts ma: jo in his cups, t great effort theor on work! minister campers ag WHAT quiet wv iar Rettig ye |ae'tere wufed weanertees| Where One Is, Sate, From all accounts, it appears that Galli Curet reached high © several ticed tt natant | times with ease while telling the Chicago opera folks her views. } SAYING hie sae vennaiin pa | Four Others Pay Cateye SoBe Re | . : about to remonstr > razor! . | a and the minister received d flowing rather free [definite that is known about earth- | cut Bleeding gums—the telltale sign MARY GARDEN, opera singer How Long Will They Last? r tem - "i and opera st who lone quakes in lable to be of the utmost | The f j red grabbed PUBLISHER tells us that 200,000 different books cola tiaire ‘Soros’ Gate es | impertanoes toe) ming seusatiate be: | to a eld 1¢ over the woutes Tender, bleeding gums should not be He fig- 1 th rs; these im Neve that atudy of the subject w | there, Mos uu see the neglected. They mean that Pyorrhea is come from the world’s presses each year. ures that nearly 9,000,000 books were published in the last century Out of the 200,000, how many are really Worth read- result in prediction of earthquakes, | evil effects of strong drink.” | now. | eshkin ve | It is admitted that the prediction | |of earthquakes, full of these fat ten. who t . on its way, Surely, you can’t afford to take chances when four persons out of every five past forty, and thousands ad Moss makesh the tender” same as weather is predicted ors who all. but bu 1 vessel |in fits of picturesque foaming ang PIGGY CAN'T PRIMP | ing? One hundred might be a low estimate, but certainly [are not temperamental, They are assuming it can be | not more than that many will survive by the year 2000, | just plain craz jaccomplished on about the same} LONDON.—Pigs are pigs! And younger, contract it. iter than as relics ” | | basis of accuracy as weather predic. c-| pigs they must be. No more trip: ete tl ‘ : vos 3 ishes | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, Eagiis| |tions, has many us dangers, |to the beauty doctors before the hou The best a ere is Forhan’s For Writing, except as a. carrier of tl ought, perishes | B ie born tn w paint | Fear and even panic are lable to be | of adjudication at the show. New| the Gums. If used consistentl: d quickly. \er's brain. It is no more dependent | hronfc conditions in some |rulings of the La Pig so.| ently an Gu the'eate wiietl oduens tae ah} here earthquakes are fréq but | clety and the Natic used in time, it will check Pyorrhea’s i ly 21,00 + try! Mr. Bok’s y, {on the street in which ho lives. It} Sig where damage, year by y is | association de hogs mu It develops that only 21,000 persons are trying to get Mr. Bok’s money. |on the street in which ho lives. It) uy FORD—Automobile man-| wages a gh Oa | eee ceeave BL heen aust 2 progress, keep the teeth white and clean, and the gums firm and healthy. What's the matter with us? 2 turer. Born Powder, from now on, is taboo. NE en Se that a slaughtered cow painted by Greenfield, Mich. Rembrandt was a far more beautiful | Jul: 63. Educated in dist the pigs aren't kickin’ in the least] Hail he Pl ! \ werk chrale (tah atty of Raptnal CEORAL Nearait te jee stor a The formula of R. J, Forhan, D.D.S. ail to the Plumber! Madonnas.” WE tater ToT ete fe Pleasant to the taste. At all druggists, O not despair of Europe. She may come clean yet. W. B. RICHARDGON, Cleveland |jratioc “sett One rt itn, of tena | oie ane Bain aera th ast; 35c and 60c in tubes. i The bath-tub has found its way into the smelly M ’ hp ‘apaatiin | und sreeinie eT PCAN Adinen casas s can be overcome to a con-| ar a “ picts 3 way in @ § 3 De |and presidént Ford Motor company. rs ca : n con-|and points cast, ; Balkans. ; o farther |] Prroasutatntar’ of eitoate |siderabi s extent by changes in con:| Old Lady i, T want a train or a Ss A big, new hotel at Angora will have a half-hundred |‘ nging the product to the | biles world, employing more than | *Fuct tha ble buildings to|that gets to Syracuse and I rith baths—h showers, § 3 sunita Jattention of the ultimate user than) 75,090 s. Democratic candi.|™0ve ground tremors instead of| care which way it points —Dry Goods rooms wit aths—hot water, showers, soap and every- | ther expenditure you can make. date for Cuts bik 2 | resisting I economist FOR wr 4 thing. Fine! |People look to the local newspaper )man Newberry, 1918. Address, Deon | THE GUMS Plumbers have been sighted in Athens. Nothing defi- advertising as their guide.” born, Mich é | More than a tooth paste —it checks Pyorrhea It is believed | ill-Fullment nite has developed yet, but there is hope. The Day of there, with reluctance, of course, that the old-time, un- Pied i rik eg teh es | WHOOPING COUGH ee clean and insanitary pyblic baths must go. Good! plo are tired of one judge being| Be rd ve CP gat al rst Formula of R. J. Forkan, D.D. S. able, whe! os ‘eme cot is dl. w y "I ay Sofia has a brand-new, spick and span hotel with running ble, when the supreme cout i at) oighing, Rotp to qulet clees with BY BERTON BRALEY | be on snes Meum . hot and cold water in every room—yessir!—and there are tubs, too. Once, not a long time ago, Sofia’s only conces- sion to the eccentricities of western civilization was one 3 isn't any question be: hat overeating brings A lot of indigestion And other kindred things; in keevins| CHAMBERLAIN’S | | COUGH REMEDY Every wee user is fo friend acts of congress that a with changed conditio: MODERN SCIENCE CAN NOW | large, carmine bath-tub that never was overworked. It JUNIUS BEAL, regent of gi Unt ees ! . versity of Michigan he alumnus But tho our rules of living is now Exhibit A in a museum for antiques and super- jis the principal cause of intemper Are strict and sane enough, | fluities, and where once grand, gloomy and peculiar, it |anco in our colleges, which is now We sit down on Thankagiving Teared its austere front, there now are myriads of bright, | one of the imperative problems that And we stuff, be clean, there now is a hotel of many white and shiny sousers already installed. Grand! confront us. He brings lio to the | i ade, w vore it was a si e campus on gala days. Tho impres. | brisk November weather And in Belgrade, where of yore it was a sin to wash ard |sionable young student always looks | I With diet rules ignored ’ ENERGY ANT ‘WOR i - rooms with baths alumni A sort of god: | | The household gets together | and showers attached, and great quantities of hot and cold and consequently necepts the | About the groaning board. Where Wee tots Be webmneen | running water on tap. Magnificent! on ot ee | And tho the sky be murky, really feel their best at thi ‘time of | pete ss If you are not ‘com. : U a drink’ as a virtu m1 r est a is time of | plete - si 4 : But here’s the greatest advance of all. Listen! Some | ‘tus there in no record of anyo SNESS—SICK MEADACHE, We hays Libercotanee e the year. Skep does not refresh | ney sje fhe stunt, tate i s been stealing soap in Constantinople! Uh-huh! | having been helped in his studies by |} call for an MR Tablet, (a vegetable Na to ie y turkey | SS0e ae they get up for work feel-| Clip this article and get Dr. Thach- | ‘Three times in a month or mo k, daring persons | #9 rides.’” spertent) to tone and streagthen Mg dull, drowsy and tired—easily | er's in Sea at Pioneer Drug Com- i ; pet eh watate ACK, s persons | é @ orcans of digestion and ellml- ae ; upset by indlgestion—otten conath-lnuny aoe : j have got away with several cakes of soap and the city | J Batlon. Improves Appetite, Relleves || E'RE thankful for cach blessing pated—trequetitly fatigued, nervous |onn Ave.; Lion Drug Com- ; _ is astonished and excited. ever heard of such a thing Constipation, | That wo have como acros jand worn out before the diy = r ieee rs wet pe | before. And it wasn’t soap that could be eaten, either A Thought | ("Please help me to that dreasin a dont ‘Ave.; Cascade Drag i: . 1d more cranberry sauce") ae 1 lumbia Sinful, but hopeful. j | | Ss her? masa |_ Let modern memeal science hely pany, 4872 Rainier; War- ’ War long -has been the easiest thing in Balkan life. A false witness shall not be un- Thanksgiving is the word for Waa points Leeds i? budy aty tone aden Sor | But, no more—probably. With their faces and bodies and punished, and he that speaketh lies | CT take her plateful tem, bull secret Rssga ee pot A or th and u Washi | feet washed and their hair brushed, those touchy folks shall not escape.—Proy. xix:5, | Of that bird”), j ent Meinath) pays AS he ad a rug nDANYs Lisc at § F will look and may see differ The bath-tub 1m | : | Pee gi Pa Jus & spoonful of Dr. ‘Thach Brust Fy Want ho Wanton {| renovate them, sanitate Europe and soothe the broken _ thei sworn on: eva Oe Ae ae ts : after the next few Is. Notice the | Drug Comp nd sing aed | heart of the world. Here’s hoping. To the plumber, | ten »mmon as bac Come na Te én te pita itep, ISIC ANE Yost | hail and high speed! Hel 7 Of forks and epoona and knives ’ a =< __True to rule and form, they don't pub the padiock on the door t | NR JUNIORS —Littlo His About the planet spread Apo eas ete X. Tec hes 2 vor until | x ey whe ne‘er| I OF a Made a everyone on enrth I Kestion, § Liver an. nachers- | joa! within? é of same ingredients, then candy Overtedt P and coated. For children and adults. |! Copyright, 1923, The tle Star) ' em |<" foNTe asi " SOLD BY Yorn onvaaisT