The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1924, Page 8

. PAGE 8 The Seattle Star | ” ney People And onl The entire vy is he g for tax reduc everywhere are insisting on ecor yet, in the es ade by var four have volun to get along that of the present year, Is that ec 1 Other depar more than they were giv such methods? The and incr that, before the iner rigid investiga 4 tt publishes the results cl at the public may know what the various offices are costing. And it Suggests that private citizens, interested in tax reduction, attend the county budget he next week, and ask ‘auestions about any figures in the list that arouse their curiosity. The only w the public take : In this list tl 1924 that the o' Commissioners’ office—increase appropriation than 810 > cut by a total of § Can taxes t showing the decr | apply for. It beli here should be a athered figures e offices w ses are granted, extravaga INCREASI Nine superior courts—increase Prosecuting attorney's office—inere: Probation department—increase Mothers’ pension—increase Detention hame—increase Five justices of the peace—increase Five constables—increase Coroner—increase eases Morguc—increase . 4 + use, including maintenance of building—increase TRerticatusal department—increase aac ss Agricultural department —increase Health department—increase : Public welfare department—increase County home—increase Purchasing agent—increase Superintendent of schools—increase ome] and bridge fund, North distriet—increase South district—increase Total increase County clerk's office—decrease . Sheriff's office—decrease ...... THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924 ‘Yes, Styles in Campaigning Are Changing!| Toran NEA Service Ine. , a I CHAPTER XVII Roosevelt and the Discovery of the North Pole Immediately I sent re-| Mel- | from M iven New York another pewriter | quite slowly, walking |% 20m as he did so, We got| long fairly well. The announceme t lunch waa ready brought th interesting morning to an end. CHAPTER XVI Pe to the about the also announced reached North Pole, Inform Roosevelt and «}endeavor to get his comment decided not to go Mel afternoon. This cable I also telegr | h only a few more spect-| Colonel, F wth at Ny mens that were wanted here, mostly | awaited his answer to both of them. birds, and they could wait until It) “A fow days later I received a was fine weather. So we sat around | further cable from New York, which lthe luncheon table in the hotel din-|read as ing room and exchanged stories Z |about hunting and other things con nected with the country. Irish Are Leading All in New Immigration Quota | Oo an unfortunate revernal of several of type in reprint ing the issue of the Washington bureau's bulletin on “The Preal- of errors crept into the bulletin. If you have a copy of that bulletin, obtained from the bureau, 4 your bulle tin does not bear ite face the words “Corrected the bulletin in a this coupon an address, and the bureau will send & new, corrected print free. Our bureau regrets the t t cause readers, but new erything possible by fur nishing « free corrected copy in exchange for an old copy. If you have a copy bearing the words, “Corrected Print, it contains no dent.” « nur ble and Australia 121 ia, Greece, Egypt, New Zealand, the negro republic Liberia, Iceland, New Guinea, Palestine, Persia, the union of South Africa, South West Af rica, Turkey, Samoa, and Siam, well as the once famous Is- land of Yap, each come in under the 100 maximum allowance Smoking Room } Stories a | MEY were talking of raitroad ac. eldents In the smoker, and one of the occupants of the compart. ment contributed this one: “A Middle farmer and hia wife were recently in a small Western \Casts First Vote at 103,| Though Bugibles2Y ears Robert Leonard. REENSBORO, N. C., Oct. 4. he also says that he ts going te walk to the polls with the rest of the folks. “I didn’t think the country would be materially helped by my vote,” he says, in explaining why he never exercised his cit zenship rights, “Now they have convinced me that {tt is my duty. So I'll be there.” Leonard explains his longevity by saying, “Leading a clean fe and letting bad lquor - a alone.” s & ; oa lowing Saturday, and after having ] sympathized with him, asked him if { Thought jhe thought he would get suitable He that giveth, let him do it with compensation from the railroad com |pany | ““I don't suppose I should have | simplicity—Rom, xii.:8. | | Robert Leonard, a native | of Gul'ford county, now in his } 106th year, will cast his first ballot at the November election. | Altho he has been eligible to | vote for presidents | | | 82 years, occupy has seen 20 the White House, Leonard has never yisit- ed the po This year, ever, he intendts to vote- ie a got a cent from them, if I had not | . railroad accident. A neighbor met |had the presence of mind to step on HEN you give, give with joy and phere FY : him in the drug store, on the fol-lmy wife's face. smiling —Joobert. errors Next day was fine and the sun was | was a royal mascot, the Pole ts ours shining, and {t did not rain during the remainder of our brief stay aty Again I telegraphed Colonel Roose Naivasha. Every morning, after! veit at Nyert; and so far had not re that first wet day, Colonel Roose-|celved from him any answer to my volt and Kermit rode off on a shoot-|two earlier messages. There was ing trip. [nothing to do but wait and be pa pane ew ae % tent. It was quite possible that he| i KILLS RARE JABIRU | wee out of touch with the telegraph | * *| After some days of patient waiting, I received a letter written tn pencil | from one of his camps in reply to my three telegrams, ‘This letter was written before Ker: | mit went off from Mweru for Lake Hannington and Lake Baringo, and Roosevelt for the Guaso Nyire. The letter read Not [merase «...ceseceseessersees ereecseesceseeecases 516,395.00 Why Sue? YMENTS to many injured workmen and their fam- ilies, due under the state industrial insurance act, are being held up. Many of these persons, in dire need, are helpless because | the appropriation made by the last legislature, amounting to $4,000,000, is exhausted. The appropriation was made out of the state industrial ice fund. This was set aside by the act establishing the system, for one purpose alone—the payment of these claims. There is now $7,174,187 lying idle in this fund. And a Suit is pending in the state supreme court to compel the auditor to draw warrants on the fund without further La Follette Cutting Down Coolidge’s Lead 689,019 Votes From 18 States in the “Digest’s” Nation-wide Poll Are Tabulated and Analyzed This Week California a Hotly Contested Battle-Ground— The “Solid South’? May Turn Tide for Davis Interest in the “Digest’s” nation-wide Presidential i i i s poll is mounting to t heights as the hundreds of thousands of votes are being received and tabiitatod a es ree teresting side-light upon the La Follette strength and whence it is drawn is shown in the “Digest” this week by the opinions and observations of edi especially by those in California. oo ee en See The “Digest” also carries a detailed record of the i ilati : “Dig S a ( revious affilations of those who vote in this largest of Presidential straw-vote polls, and. this record is shown weekly in the tabulations. It will become increasingly illuminating as the vote mounts up. As the Richmond, Virginia, Times-Dispatch says, this G * s , pues perigee pa Ys, this poll “is an undertaking of real value.’ should point unmistakably to i ; . . thers Ncvambars ly to the winner in the Presidential election in Other news-features October 4th are: La Follette the “Stormy Petre!” Science to End War or End the Race China’s War Flaming Higher Mr. Davis’s Attack on the Republican Tariff British Fears of Franco-German Competition The Puzzle of Ireland’s Trade Spectacles for Cataract A River that Gets Rusty Radio Censorship Investments and Fi A New and Hard-Boiled War Play | Many Striking Tl fe4 Hows he ; Get October 4th Number—On Sale To-day—All News-dealers—10 Cents y- is Piedad tho value of the halt} ‘ Se ih | | It is a mark of distinction to be a reader of EMILY POST’S ETIQUETTE—“The Blue Book of Social Usage” five more lions more buffalo in the north- The most complete book un social usages that ever grew Sellii ing 1,000 copies a week! 0 - between two covers. —Chicego Tribune. tions; $4.18, met At every Rana ae ay es 0 Nyero. FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers, 354-360 Fourth Avenue, New York One day Roosevelt! brought back |with him a great prize, which greatly delighted the heart of Mearns, He t great good fortune to nd kill a fine specimen of the rarest of all African birds, the | | Jabiru. Its scientific name ts hlo- phiorhyncus Senegalensis at ts what Mearns said {t was—and/ identification is beyond all question. On another occasion, Mearns, Lor |ing, Kermit and myself took Colonel | ropriation. Roosevelt out to try his luck bY lawer by letter, because I can't get y should the legislature have to make an appropria- | moonlight with tho wily spring-b99s/15 stwery for a couple of days any-| tion jand the African fox. At first he was/) 0. > how; and moreover I can explain | somewhat nonplussed by the ‘neo: othe ailag ig te itp customed nature of the sport, but h¢| “ie the news about Peary's having | was soon hard at work and waa most . ; neueaa Galt |otten to the North Pole is unques successful. He “achieved better Fe-itionahly authentic, and. not other sngghegee oe and accom, | Wi8% Dubliah the following from me. pi oe Mee feaee ¥ i'l rejoice over Captain Peary‘s| Laeing hell ge pret eal wat | erent achievement. Too much credit | bs parte fal erl-\ cannot be given hitn; he has per. - | formed one of the great feats of the t, the day of departure for febreumen: ‘pond ty Sarned The |*8% and all his countrymen should huge caravan started off, with much |! !s doing him honor. | ive ch nett| As for the other two cables, T can trumpeting of native “horns and not make head or tail out ot them | clase Mega pyc gave mo the Im-! who is Dr. Cook? What has he dis.| pression of a huge, winding make ax ‘ i jcovered? Why is he going to Copen- it crept away In mingle file over the} . hagen? How does It concern me, On Safari. Sept. 12, ‘09. Dear Foran: Tho three cables areat hand: Ian The attorney general contends that no legislative action is necessary, inasmuch as the fund is created for the one purpose only. _ Is it a legislative move to seek to hoodwink the taxpayers by an act of apparent economy that is no economy at all? A Bull’s-eye Issue 'T LAST there is a discussion that you can get into. The topic of public turmoil and newspaper debate at _ Youngstown, Ohio, has been as to the relative value of the ' common nightshirt over the pajama. ° | _ _ How’s that for an issue? Back in the Ohio city on the [own veldt toward Nvert ar, anyhow? | banks of the coffee-colored Mahoning, wherein both night- |cunninghame ani ‘Tarlton rode off| jit twy met wrote you, T have] Shirts and pajamas are washed, wives, husbands, little [on the trail of the porters after they | 1\. fies Killed oostalacs ane riliee | Willies, even laundresses, have clinched over this issue, | )#d !unched at the Rift Valley hotel.| Soon Kermit and I neparate, | ceros, emed to triumph, and | Tuer first camp wit om the Njoro| 2? wolng toward Lake Hannington, r garments, when % | Router people? Evolution, Mars and politics, take a back seat! Nowis | HUNT | edt from the “ior ana I across to the Guaso Nyero aiupahesd thats ho ; | Will you tell this to Ward, and the “birthday clothing” beat all others, at night. Wow! FIRST ELEPHANT | Good luck! ' the time for all good men to come to the aid of their night- shirt, if any. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt (Continued in the Next Issue) ae osevelt killed his first | ant near Kenya, I knew | eee Questions ¢ Answered « The 1924 Prodigal ‘HINGS do not always run true to precedent. A prodi- gal son, returning home in New York, failed to find @ fatted calf awaiting him. There was a warrant out for | ; es taille in’ cotta the prodigal. a i F lin thermos bottles | His father, a plainclothesman, ved the warrant—took aiff ; | him to jail. This is not without its note of tragedy. Can you imagine the mental and spiritual tortures this father Went thru? of unusual interest in THE LITERARY DIGEST for | Do You Know How to Read? | Farming for the Lord Easy Times for Murderers Trying to Civilize the Filipino The Real “Babe” Ruth Polo, the Father of Baseball as Well as Croquet Distortion; Foe of Radio Topics of the Day placed curdle Hecause m our temperature j| ately warm. coffee the When put in a ev been most his group in the mate of Kast Africa ephant takes, at tho| in @ thermon dott t est ¥ "I 3- eld r time yf a . om this it should be kept in ‘par hyo adil inde h tatner, as it will invariably » 1 Cunninghame had no light t put in the coffee to perform. 1 WA Dy: Mino a le Cuuulnghame was helping| QW aro the five lar Heller to # vis first elephant r > ? isn stand long enough by the warmth of the anxious ees torrid ¢ It w | lec v nt off to A. The Ler a hunt, lo Kermit and! Olympia, Aqu toward pe world rolls along on tho lilt of a song and thero’s musle wherever you go. There's harmony sweet that ts really a treat and an ald for wu folks here below. We rise in the morning and start out to hum, as any old song comes to | Blind. It brings on the cheerfuls and chase the spirit, we find. The popular airs that we crave for today arc begin it. We'll never run out of these airs fomes out every minute, The bla-ha and jazz of the great. modern song, p Ggain, ccts tiresome, and then there is really relief, Bymn now and then. When tickling the keys, just in popular air Fight in trim, you'll find th I get a new Pou'll now and then warble a hymn. (Copyright, 1 han, Berengaria,| fa and Columbus, § the glum, and it keeps up to 65 0 65 cents. Q What is the horsepower of tho Ford car? Of the Chevrolet? A. Ford, Chevrolet, 21,7 eee | whene'er weland Ker se a new one picked o they say, 1 over und over y outa r this great fortune they vernment Boma Kermit went off to Colonel Roosevelt 1 while'his s¢ 5 being skinne: Q What is the amount of Indian blood in a person who: grandmother was an Indis A. One-cighth a Sez Dumbell Dud: A whirlwind fin. for the cam- paign ts promised for October. As to tho whirl, there may be some or none; aa to the tolnd, thera ts no doubt about it, PLATES a ARERR ED great. 1 keeping y 1 from your wares if| remained at M elephant bull v volee xr _ ~ mats ” RHINOCEROS SHOT | | TRIE IS ee tah hen Heller and Cunninghame | smplished this task, Colonel | Roos it rode into the northern Guano Nyiro, where Kermit had en- Joyed much good sport. Hore Colo. nel Roosovelt Kkdiled two more elo. phant, while Kermit killed ono ele- phant and a good rhinoceros, | had