The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1925, Page 8

is a fs now on his way to Washington to stir ia ASAD AEN TH ATT By carrie at Beatt ‘| \cm»| The Seattle Star fo: ~ We tere of March 8, 187? H You and the Philippines ; te, especially those who : own automobiles, should be interested i} ‘in the fate of the Philippines. Now government experts tell us that there are 3,000,000 acres of A-No, 1 rub ber land in the southern part of the Phil- ippines. The world’s present supply is twrown on less than 4,000,000 acres, so, ‘tinder proper conditions, there is no sound 'yeason why we cannot arrange to grow all ur own tires for years to come. Then why don’t we do it?) The answer i's it takes money to start a rubber planta- tion and nobody wants to risk money in a country whose future is shrouded in lmystery and doubt. With what amounts to a monopoly on wubber, Great Britain now controls the |pprice. A few weeks ago American tire- tmakers were paying well under 20 cents ta pound. Now they pay around $1. As the United States uses three-fourths ithe total output, or just under 700,000,- {000 pounds a year, the difference between what we ought to pay and what the Brit- ish make us pay amounts to more than $500,000,000. It’s a new tax they make us pay to ride in our own car. If the Philippines’ 3,000,000 acres pro- duced rubber, Seattle, as a port, would be the entry point for millions of pounds of it. More business for us. But until those 3,000,000 acres are planted and producing, they won't do Seat- tle a bit of good—and we'll keep on pay- ing toll to the British for rubber. Today nobody can say what the Philip- pines will be tomorrow. They may be absolutely free; or an American depend- ency; or possessed of a Cuban status; or rving out a 20- or 30-year period wait- ing to decide their future by plebiscite. Or they may be free, like Belgium, under international guarantees. Or something altogether different. Now, nobody knows. And until the stat- us of the islands is fixed, business is bound to be dull and big money will not go there. Money will flow into any country with a definite future, however bad, for it can discount conditions. But it free Solid when it has no way of foreca What may happen. Congress should act. ewes tan ' It is not fair to } the Filipinos nor to Americans out there, = nor to us,here in the States, to keep us * all dangling. t _ The question concerns every American. ‘Even if we don’t care a hang for the moral Bide of our promise to free the Philip- ‘pines, we still have our pocketbooks to _ consider. Sergio Osmena, brilliant Filipino leader, up congress. We wish him luck. Should Railroads Share Up? HOULD the Northern Pacific, Great : Northern and Burlington systems share their big incomes with that of the hard-up Milwaukee? That's a question that vitally interests Seattle, western ter- minus of the road. It is the chief sub- ject to be fought out in the hearings to ~ begin before the interstate commerce com- ‘mission September 1 in connection with the effort of the railroads to increase ~ freight rates in the Northwest. Congress in 1920 thought it had an- swered this question in the affirmative. _ It passed a law to the effect that railroads earning over 534 per cent should share «their excess profits with less fortunate “lines. Disputes over the valuations on _ which profits are to be figured have prac- tically made this part of the 1920 trans- portation act a dead letter. + The specific case which will be threshed out in September is whether the Milwau- kee railroad is entitled to some of the wofits of such lines as the Northern Pacific, the Chicago & Northewestern and * other lines which operate out of Chicago to the West and North. The Milwaukee, now in the hands of _ receivers, needs a rate increase of. 11 per cent in order to earn 534 per cent on its capitalization, its owners say. An 11 per cent increase is more than the shippers and consumers along the Milwaukee can pay. : Other Northwestern lines, if given a 5 ‘6 | Mr. Fixit of the Star | | per cent freight increase, can earn more than the allotted 544 per cent. But ship pers and consumers along these lines can stand the 5 per cent increase, railroad officials assert the Milwaukee former Interstate Mark W., Potter, To equalize the situation receivers, headed by Commerce Commissionei will attempt to obtain a general rate increase of 5 per cent for all railroads in the Northwest. At the same time they will attempt to compel all other lines to share the increased earnings thereby obtained with the Milwaukee Charles Evans. Hughes, former secre tary of state, will be the chief counsel for the Milwaukee receivers. The more pros- perous lines have announced that they too will be represented by famous lawyers to oppose the profit-sharing The hearings will be held in Chicago, where several members of the interstate commerce commission will establish porary headquarters Mrs. La Follette Declines HE La Follettes of Wisconsin insist upon being different. They decline to take the easy and obvious ways. Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, widow of the great progressive leader, has formally refused to be a candidate for the office vacated by his death. According to all reports from Wisconsin, this amounts to a refusal to be the first woman elected to the United States senate. She could be elected, it appears. At a time when the country has become accustomed to the election of widows to fill out husbands’ terms, including gover- norships and the lower house of congress, Mrs. La Follette sets herself apart. It is not that she is not interested in poli- tics and the affairs of government. Her whole life, since her graduation from law school, has been spent in public affairs And her idea of public office is that of a place of public service, a place for work -hard and often unhappy work—not a place of idle honor. Mr: Follette is no longer youngs she has other work of her husband’s to complete, his very im- portant memoirs to prepare. She regards the successful accomplishment of this as of more importance than all she might be able to do in a few years in the senate. tem Women of the country who had hoped she might use this opportunity to break the precedent against election of women to the senate will be disappointed, no doubt, but they will admit the courage of the course she has chosen and the clear thinking that lies behind it. | Growing Pains HAT Seattle suffers from is nothing more serious than growing pains. There's only one cure for that particular | malady. You'd think, to hear some folks talk, | that we're in a sort of “‘All-is-lost; all-is- chaos -himself-who-can” condition. Maybe some folks get the idea that we're ; all parching up for lack of water, living without sewers, oppressed by grinding taxes that are killing business and mak- ing grass grow down Second ave.—and that sort of thing. Of course, we want an adequate water supply. We want lower taxes. We want to cut out waste. We want an A-1 sani- tary system | And we're going to accomplish all those | things—but give us a couple of minutes to do them in. We're just a bright young sprig of a city getting out of short trousers and shirtwaists, blundering along thru the world like any other kid. We've all the good intentions in the world; all the en- thusiasm there is—because we know we've got a world-beater of a city, a city you can’t stop, a city that’s going to be another Chicago, another New York. Like all kids, we make a lot of mistakes —but we'll right them. We let a lot of things slide that we ought to look after —but we'll clean them up before long. H We're getting out of the kid class now, | rolling up our sleeves and settling down to business. Give us a chance. \} fence and throws them half dead for the cat any one a right to do | this? BIRD LOVER. Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles |) "Hoyo. ain eee + the Audubon society The tele- | If of Public Interest phone number is ELlot-4419 ; Mr. Fixit: The sidewalk in | you have further trouble call | ai anal sia Lh hee 4 j the 3400 block on Claremont | ELiot-0732, and ask for Mrz | finn ope Dor the: post | aveSis in bad condition. Both McCoy Hae acy mares omer feaden Sor ‘ my wife and my daughter have rae Me aes oF Bs dy | sprained ankles from falling on ovine, Ment awing get this fired? W. OB. D Ing ¢ in the White-Henry top of his chicken yard fence | Stuart buildin This has been reported to that catches sparrow and other the street department, and will birds, At night he takes them be given attention at once. If out, bangs their heads against | How does it happen old me —- —| Glory” ia allowed to float over certain buildings in the city all night? 1 understood that Mt LOT of the gossip and news that iy known tart it was the law that all United | States flags on buildings be | lowered at night. Can you get | this regulated? AK, 0% | This is possibly an oversight on the part of some janitor who is in a hurry to get home Out on its rourds to dinner All janitors and } o'er the wires of the phon hen business, or pleasure, or any buildings keepers are -hereby j 9! thing, we're achin’ to tell, we give someone a ring notified that the flag must go } “Well, howjare you, kidlets, and how have you been? They tell me down with tho mun, you've taken up bridge. Do you win? I'm using mass to clear Byte 1) Up my brow.” It's mother who's doing the talking right now Mr. WUrit The street light j _ “Hello, this the hous? Well, I'm. absent today. I've got an old head. | at 47th ave. 8, and Mudaon st ache that won't xo away. You'll have to forgive me for slippin' a cop has been out for some ting, You know who that is—why, it’s someone's stenog Ihave made several cont I've waltd@l yot call, Remember your plaints, but without —reantt "You, this r your sweetie. , Promise lastWMght, in the hall? You said if you loved me you'd gladly This ia a dark place and a light confess.” ‘The voice of the modern day flapper, 1 guews | is badly needed, MRS. 8. 1 ‘Hello, there, friend wife! I'm delayed at my work. You know The ight dopartment has } you'd object if you thought that I'd shirk. I'm buried in letters aw ay promined to renew this at out of sight.” And father is missing from supper that night once, Poxsibly you did not get , _ The messages come and the messages go, and they bring quite a the right person’ when you | flock of the things that we know. There's gladness and sadne in all phoned. There are a number of #orts of tone, thru the chatter’ that flows every day on the phone, departments at the city light h, (Copyright, 1925, for The Star) office | | e Written for The Beatlle Star Copyright 1625 || An Auto Price War Second of three stories concerm-) wa 4 I hope the fairy wasa | the a Oe By Leo R. Sack ently i the Up o nm Onta € ed JASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Au- | grade of car + ieee Farr ations "| , ming a bitte price. wa m. One ¢ Mevetie cnt ® © same thi I kK prices to the lowest p n Ing ¢ seret op c It ie r st The manufa « : Ontario, Canada. ‘The farms are € transm the A ire. | 8 embark A r oldenta is ae . w ght cat-dog policy w ab i as ra " " . ' The aid, wny pla c xreate t ) nat i > Kabndiciahites Wa students of the au- ift an ‘ a ° * a a block ; 11,597 kilomatts cost 0 1 ries and equipment re the price war will worse for his ty've found a way to | to pay a service charge of $1.80, i Jeaneol on epee ee twhicnl that between 500 and 600 rem care of that, up there but he got back a ount o are now selling at the same price | different types of passenger cara alone is enough to ke one to get electricity tothe | $2.14 for prompt payment, so Sain inabhata < wold (th rae have been m: ted since the In- woman on the jump. Lamps, | farmer the province of Or | that the whole cost was only a Tee (Others amd staat | There are now Janterns—even candles 4m inw that th | tle more than 1 cent per kflo- id, ool gi pry aye im. makes of passenger cars There's a story of # fa 1 out of the treasu ar at larrapee baton i rh bss aa fe ET came to-a farm oneal’ ofthe t know how many un than the open 2 a | asked her what mission lines into hts were left burn ater iowa ciate 4 | h \ Eine Reduction in closed models ia h eee atrbuted to the grealy ie || AD Rought creased demand for that type. |4 stead of re the aids -wakhing< hanting of wh iabiels aa @ He that loveth not knoweth ae tie tae Bat thince Bh eh ae ladine not God: for God is love—John that these cars on a quantity produc- 1, iv.c48, ¥ and qua y produc Rigktant TOMORROW—The Price We prices are following j LOVE is everyth' love ' Pay to Be Fooled. very | is God—Leon Gozian. Nii didn't ¢ the thing who | puse wotll! grum B im at met after she wanted a ¥ ntl. | an ironer and an iron, a out from th | dishwasher, and a vacuum clean It costs too mu: F ' er, and an electric stove, and a bumper crop years can't st top of the house full, and a heat esAake current, and cu have been = “8 F en tonst Witte TF wan in Canada C Ma ! . ese heese is an Women are that way. I hope she homes here and there, I selected —s; ° ° . ! What Folks ms institution here! Are Saying HELTERED from chilling east winds by the protecting POLA’ NEGRIL movie at (@, 4 2 Coast range, and with the front door opening out upon Work with wet clay is the ~ Y the broad Pacific from which come rains when the rest of tate bere bent ; 2 the Pacific slope is dry, in Tillamook the grass is green peer dimly thru the soft gra through winter and summer — a dairyman’s paradise! ness of the clay, I feel alr THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 ( eG 5 awestruck as if 1 were a god It go EV OUVAte worlaty Cheese is the institution of Tillamook. CRY, folks may & a new being into ex You love: a good time argue about ‘the best automobile in the world’’— but here NCES PARKINSO} xen ye Ren ll folks discuss Holsteins, Guernseys, or Jerseys. Good cows, ns tK ON You ne lots of money i roducti food cheese. author and senator's And haveceettevacant vie you see, are vital to the production of good cheese. Hampshire Th Put you have another side ta i ‘age Neration of young people 4 cutee ee Then along with good pasturage and good cows you tag aound at the core ns 1 You" whe. capable of: sacrifice, Senco! of Cookiak be must have good cheese makers. In Tillamook cheese oe spa liinigedn atta . | aa id ef ope devotion Pr rds fe spor pera making is the life work of those white clad men in the puth of today.” | Aad a tekas vcawathy Ah YP ALA kitchens who watch every step from weighing in the milk OE I CKAGSHEN, prima | You may be very. religious dpoma hasty anise te to putting on the paraffin that seals in the goodness of this the American woman will out AvdMave EecalIont Chath 2 any at ree ee delicious full-cream cheese. se Mlon Santned teatige thee a You have executive ability Tillamook is the original branded cheese. Look for the name on tho better form." | wath are ey intolligant every slice and loaf. You can be aare of Tillamook flavor. It’s the : sialic ica estiy favorite of the West. Make the Tillamook mark on the rind your SMOKING ROOM Nat lend cheese buying guide. tpem aay aturelan STORIES TILLAMOOK COUNTY CREAMERY ASSOCIATION | AVE: you ever noticed the TILLAMOOK, OREGON summer hotel may adver weo bit of pulpy matter in (our our WAY WE ALL GOT A DIFF KisS 1 CANT FERG' 1S GOT-HOW YA GOn Mov Got “YES wi ex) BANANAS The Ferm Wife’s Electric Fairy spat Toe By U.S. Y SAY! HOW YA SPEC TN) } .AVE GOOD MUSIC WEN PIECE ? I Gor Swee® ALICE |/ BEN BOLD) VANS GoT_TH . UM DOWN ON TH FARM AN |) AIN’ GOT NOTHIN. AUGUS' AY pe Wonitaus Give Men the Same Right TTT . ise BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ve J \WM YA POOR NUT! THIS 2 ae rae Bs oe Soe DS | 16 A SAZZ ORCHESTER! Wi oe Rp lege ep EAL PEP isa Ron Mi) \F WE Woz ALL PLAMIN! 9 even , re emia “TH SAME PIECE , TT WouLOW! a: f #4 see, steps out Lh ne 1 nies z fl BE NO JAZZ ORCHESTER . 4 Boy se " IT LES \| GOSH DION' YA NEVER iB acit ae Sh si . INA KEEP \\ HEAR ONE, ed \ ; \¢ ; Ay : GOSH SAKES? \ be ge . ° e GOT No} ik, | z ¢ the m AN’ TOD \ ; em in the : t turn sf r e | ‘ now must give ° 4 cent ge ou _ ( ym the necessity of be Senator George W. Norris good table, a benuti n view, golf links, ete, | but the hotel that advertises plenty of men will be the one to get the queen smoker Who knew tt all before T came in the smoking compi ent, T heard ¢ nver ation between two widows who wore both old enough to know bent | summer, this season, Mra, Part ridge? ‘Let me tell you something Mra, Duck, Last summer | went to the Isle of Wight and never gota hug. Boelleve me, this sum mer | go to the Isle of Mann" Twenty-four cheese kitchens owned and rated i} the corners of your yes, next to | co-operatirely by the dairymen of Tillamook ty. | ‘y. your nose?) Well, that's what's By the slice of left, they say, of a third oyelid handy site loal toric past. It's ike the white | OO film, a third Nd, which the pars | rot is still able to throw over | | his eyes sometimes ] N building hie tarantula spider digs down in the earth for fe inche burrow, the | traight | ror five | that watohing It is at the angle he tales his station, for prey or enemies cron Mi w ‘ sky pateh above, ‘The tarantula ping # silk, and he makes a 3 the surface the dirt he excavates: sling of it in whieh to carry to | @