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a MARCH 27, 1925 SEATTLE STAR Sean cw sees | MPoOLIDGE RIDE HIS ELECTRICAL HORSIE W YORK, Ma family bas» watch qi lige BO ny the White Mane Frank W. Stearns of Bos ; ton, wife of the pre close friend, divulge pefore sailing camer Duilio for Ger d yesterday tt {nadvertent ‘the room wher I jarcising one cay Biams, “and | Ho watch him sev Mr. Coolidge, | takes | pis exercise ve ve hing else. | BUY YOUR TIRES NOW We can save you some real money. Fishing season opens next Wednesday, better put on a few new ones and make the trip 100% enjoyable. 7] Fabri] Cords I. .1$5.50 $6.50 5.95 6.95 8.75 oa t a a t : i a a | 16.80 {18.00 (22.50 At Extremely LOW PRICES PIKE STREET _ TIRE SHOP PIKE ST. AT BOREN Phone EL iot-2195 _ STANDRING TIRE CO. EL iot-8800 Times Sauare FIFTH and STEWART 0. STANDRING. Prop. eH PERRI AR ETS Sr errr rss | I have used Want Col- ar for years and I do not re- WRYRI/E 7 SS Fg wt Ma Fa a "EM one Business |by Admiral E, | enemy | SCOUT CRUISERS | weather | here will be on how to dodge auto | mobiles, Several accidents have oc-| fication by the states translates Harley i in Stew | Over Tax Board| Special Interests Clamoring for Shift. of Burden to Small Business Men and Home Owners; Governor Must An- nounce Personnel by April 1 BY J. KR, JUSTICR And this situation Is thought W ITHIN the next few days Gov to be the reason why the gov ernor Hartley must select the ernor is having a hard task to ee Men Who are to compose the| select the three men for the ew state tax commission,.and upon! tommission, and stick by his his decision in this matter, It ls pre-| decision, The woods are report Hoted, will depend the future of the} ed to be full of thore who would Hartley administration; largely the] accept « placa on the commis welfare of the pepublican party in| sion, but no sooner has the in state, and the burden of taxa-| governor picked three that on that the farmer and the small) would fit than pressure from Vuclidte’ ones ok carry | above or. below’ ie brought to This commission, created by the} bear, and the solection is again te logisiature, ia to have unusual! al} up in the air. powers, Section 11 abolishes the/ board of equalization, and gives the powers of that body to the tax com mission, making its findings and de rees practically final For the past two or three | piuies of the ata The wise ones claim that from the list of applicants it is aesy to jap almost the entire “invisible directorate” of the railroad com the power Interests, the lange | Men whe can affiliate with sympa ber and realty holders have | thetic interests been busy thru respectable and w well-named organizatic ering data and tax inforn jthe named that have been most which is to be passed alo prominently mentioned are those of this tax commission for its guid) | George ‘Turner, of Spokane, and ance in making the tax assess Ralph Williams, of Yakima, from ment adjustments that are to | the East side; Judge Stephen Chad. come before it. wick and Samuel Chase & Seat It is said that much of this | tle: G. W. Davia, of Tacoma: J. B information will indicate that | frost, of Gold Bar, and W. § the large Interests have been cars | wold of Ealintan so rying the tax burdens of the state, while the farmers and small business concerns have had the lighter end of the load. Should the tax commission be made! Mack Gose j “make the aacrifice” is a long one. Gris of Bellingham The names of Clark Nettleton, Nathan Eckatein, and James A Haight also have been suggested 4 several others up of men who see as their firende | Well known in political circles, are we, there is little doubt in the minds/#aid to be warming up, in the of those familiar with the situation, | of the previously ar that there will be a shifting of the/| re i tes ¢ thru tax bunlens from the shoulder the big ones to the backs of the little | « fellows If it is composed of big, strong of jed that two is generally con these commisaic ers will come n east of the moun the th and likely member men of experiance and courage, a| be different shifting of this load might| The new tax gommisaipn must be | be the outcome named by April 1 * Seattle man Could Be Taken by Foe Recent Naval W: ar Game on Pacific Coast Shows Up Defects in Defense Plan ° S* TTLE could be captured by a] 6—Modern speed of warcraft has foreign fitet. Without perma-| nullified the advantage of nent concentration on the Pacific) Panama canal. Th ted b is, the time coast of tbe combined Amorican! saving eff switching the fleets, an allen navy could win and fleet ¢ canal hold possessiin of Puget sound. wartime has been need These facta have been determined | bY added speed of foreign warships at a naval conference at San Diego,| The war gamo demons*r nee on North Islan decided, that the At ne an defend tx attem recent maneuvers of the became known in Se Friday, The confor headed known failed com to defeat the here sham be fleet. In actoal warfare fought ked on le Pacific coust now would jthe “war chart.” be in enemy hands, naya! officers admitted. ‘The abam battle was formerly an nounced, unofficially, to have re 4 in victory for the Miue, or The conferenc) established the following facta 1 1—Without continuous concentra tion on the Pacific coast of both Atlantic and Pacific fleets the United States would be helpless against an Atlantic fleet, in time of war, could }not get thru the canal fast enough NEED MORE to save the Pacifi energetic enemy, 2—Lack of scout cruisers makes | fast cruisers and air squadrons. the Atlantic fleet useless in support| Blue fleet scouting squa of the Pacific fleet in, its home| missed the Black, or attacking waters. rs parse Aircraft and aircraft carriers|the defending fleet tried are not of much value in rough ack on the rear miles, leet, but succeeded in destroying, 4—Submarines are uncertain be-|in theory, only one battleship, the cause of Diesel engine defects Maryland. 5—Lack of aces the t craft co-operation| Fast scout cruisers were notice States at a dis-/nably lacking, the conference found.| advantage in a battle with an|With them the defending firet enemy adequately equipped with air| would have made a better showing, squadrons. the officers asserted. Kill Dying Amendments | Is Arizona Solon’s Cry ‘Some of Them Have Been Hanging On) for 100 Years, He Points Out BY PAUL R. ASHINGTON, March American nation may wake up some morning and find some rather! Ashurst contends that the court de bears on the point in any way at all important chafigex made in Its form| cision may be reversed at any time | Paene. of government overnight, without) and to end forever the uncertainty having suspected it in the least Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, | democrat, of Arizona, warns of this | @mendment, arbitrarily fixing seven | oil danger in several constitutional | Years as the outside limit amendments placed by congress be- | Under present conditions, it is (re the states over 100 years ago,| conceivable that the present which still le dormant, but may be| child labor amendment may still brought to life any time. | be pending before the states, in Congrest has never set atime limit | incompleted form, 109 years from in which proposed constitutional! Now. amendments must be ratified or con-| "If one or more of the constitu- | a few more states, the most startling pee = ne ETE BUREAU OF | | complexities would arlae,” says As rtment mi dn in Hesiae, mieten gift from a foreign power Ineligible tives oF ‘The department te to hold public office? Think of all | bees | the war veterans who were hondred | \fo help im reuniting those whe have | one whose ives biahige are missing ar Tavited to repers | by medals of foreign governments | the disappearance di | rectly to The Sta me the rhnneateat, | during the war who would be cast | out of office. No veteran who re ceived a foreign ¢ bration could serve his country @ Another amendment fraught with — possibilities for national confusion, if BLANCHIE, PILLORS, salesman, | it were dragged out and ratified, is \ 22 write your mother, Mrs, Susan| one prohibiting the United States | Pillors, Flournoy, La. Five anda half) government from interfering with | feet tall, | slavery or compulsory labor val tials | This amendment, iike the one cited EDWARD EVENSON, please com-| above and others, was ratified by municate with the Bank of Montreal | severa states, when it was sub oon, Bank mitted at the beginning of the eivil - war, but failed of the necessary PRACTICAL EDUCATION —_| three-fourths. SALEM. Ore.—Speaking of practi- A strange thing about constitu branch at S fecal educati@n, a new course in in-| tional amendments is that they can struction in the junior high school | be ratified, but never killed, They live a half-life forever, unless rati curred near the school, (@hem Into law. Attractive Imported Broadcloth DRESSES » and that most} years the railroad companies, of these are what are known as) Hie the list of those who would | FREDERICK & baa gy a DOWNSTAIRS STORE: - Dependable Goods:...Economy Prices... 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DOWNSTAIRS STORE ciared, the battle showed that tye! coast from an] 1 equipped with | ROCKEFELLER 1S/s AROUSED Says Oil Men Should Have Testified at Suit NEW YORK, of certain oil ¢ to appear at quest In the Teapot ¢ government's “It is as much the oificers of a corporation as jt ix of] citizens to ob sat a and spirit of the ofeller declared today, |company in which { am 1 interested, Jali the influence I have Jerted to that end.” Rockefeller's insistence in different quarters that | business be given a Some published cam. |paigna to this end suggested Rocke \feller lead in a move to oust ALLON court decision which holds that|cials who remained out of the coun: | The | amendments be acted on in six yeara| try » both the| a | | | , lennee of Teapot | the} sought | about the matter he seeks legisia.| were Colone| Robert Stewart, chair- | * tion, in the form of a constitutional|man of the board of the Standard | 64 James O'Neill, mer president of the Prairie Oil an¢ |Gas company, and M. R The three men Refining company. one of these companies whom he does not name js the one , and only a supreme; tional amendments which have been | he pending since the early days of} | American history were approved by | |Lothrop Stoddard to Lecture Here ‘lied by her husband on the | hurst A | MISSING | "What would happen,” he says, “it! | campaign were started to ratify | RELATIVES | the amendment submitted in 1810, Pas? Atar invites its readers to wae thie Bee any citizen who received «| of “The Rising Tide an authority on post-war conditions vatmiplund } in open to both 1 speak to the men of the During the past Stoddard has met the leaders of urope tical and other Bids on County’Poor ® Farm Open Monday rett, | the forenoon of commissioners at Snohomish county, March 30, will open bids for the con struction of the proposed county poor nouncements received by contractors SOPRANO TO TOUR ORIENT |) tite cneeelnenseeeniinewntinieicninaet Mabel Conte one al |McKinle y. She is on a tour! {of the Orient, She will sing Philippine before return-} ing. Miss Garrison, in pri-| vate life, is Mrs. George Sei- }monn, and will be accompan- tour. Mr, Seimonn is an ae complished pianist. ‘| Smoke Forces ‘Uaké | Ferry to Put Back! | With smoke rolling up from the j hold, altho no blaze was apparent, “| the Vashon Island, ferryboat oper ated by the Lake Washington Ferry company at Lesehi park, immediately put back to shore with its load of passengers Thursday afternoon. The fire, which was down in the engine room, Was soon extinguished, The boat was only o short distance away from the Leschi dock Damage is estimated at about $10 Heart¥ welcome MELBOURNE. promised by Premier Bruce, who de. clares the American, British and Australian navies are not ag- gressive. rT lof the urrived in Seattle Friday | morning and will leave Sat- ifinea t urday on the American-|to return to work next week | Oriental mail liner President) | Wedded When Infant |in Japan,* China, and the, to the American fleet has been | DISSOLVE TRUST Forest Week April 27 | Produce Association Files | Petition With Court Conforming to the dictates of a recent federal court decree, the Se on Friday pe oned the superior court for a dis ution hearing The association was ordered to linsolve under a contempt decree of ttle Produce assoc Sherman anti-trust act and the con- trol of perishable goods under inter state commerce The hearing on dissolution will be \heard before the presiding judge in| the superior court May 26 The petition, signed by Barney Hill, secretary, says the dissolution ed by more than two-thirds! ockholders at a meeting was v March Noterer’s decree, meanwhile, will | jbe appealed, The association is per | mitted to continue its credit service |bureau as a financial clearing house [for Seattle produce men. ‘Archie Hutcheson Ill for Ten Days Undersheriff Archie Hutche was recovering at his home, 80th ave. Friday, from a threatened | on | America’s famous sopranog| attack of pneumonia, He has been | {1 for nearly 10 days and was taken | home Wednesday night and con- o his bed, Ho may be able of 17, Plea States Charging that “she was an infant of 17 years’’ when she married the defendant in Everett in August, 1 |Mrs. Peris Neoma Stinger Friday | filed a divorce suit against Stanton | Stinger. She also charges cruelty parents never consented to the mar- riage fA Opi Church to Have Boys’ Easter Meet All high school boys in the Univer. sity district are invit second annual pre ster assembly Jat the University — Presbyterian j Jehureh at 9:30 a, m. Sunday, They| jwill be seated together as class | groups: Frank Bayley will address the as-| sembly. Special song numbers and mass singing will TO SA RALEIGH NS diamond- N backed terrapin, highest — priced | American turtle, has beet almost ex terminated by Wholesale methods of killing them off the North Carolina inlets. The state fisheries depart.) ment has decided to prohibit terrapin | WASHIN to May 3 Proclaimed 3TON, March 27.—Presi- songs. He feels a stimulation of the dent Coolidge today proclaimed the, people's interest in maintaining the week of April 27 to May 3 to be| rapidly dwindling forests is one of “American Forest Week’ and urged | the most serious needs of the time. the country to observe the occasion | taking a renewed interest in for- | est rehabilitation. “We have passed the pioneer stage and are no longer excusable for con- tinuing this unwise dissipation of a Preservation of the nation's forests | great source,” he declared in his js a policy which President Coolidge | proclamation. “To the nation it Judge Jeremiah Neterer based on the | regards as one of the most important | means the lack of an elemental necea- | duties his administration can uphold. | sity and the waste or keeping idle or | In his proclamation today he termed | only partly productive nearly one- | forest protection a “sacred responsi-| fourth of our soil. bility to unborn generations.” | . Coolidge does not regard the| the boundless energy and skill we at 9:30, | Forest week he proclaimed | gesture to be observed principally by| free gifts of nature. The forests of Hertzman, president, and Maj. E. §.| school children singing Arbor Day] the future must be started today.” “Let us apply to this creative ta&k & mere | have so long spent in harvesting the NEW MODELS will find every desirable pattern and material among the recent arrivals now on display. Exceptional values —moderately priced. $4.85 $5.85 nd failure to provide, and says her 1 to attend the | in patent and tans, are featured at prices that will interest every mother. Showing a complete stock— 11% prices. $1.85 c.D. PHILLIPS inc. 1308 SECOND AVENU FOR WOMEN AND GROWING GIRLS $6.85 CHILDREN’S PUMPS and OXFORDS ~ Spring styles for the kiddies in many new designs 50. Small sizes at lower to 2, $1.95 to § ~ OUR BARGAIN DEPARTMENT Splendid savings on Women's Low Shoes at $2.85 $3.85