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PAGE 6 | The Sea man, Nicoll & Ruthn ™ and United ¢ “an nigomery St. CNM: |] York office, 12 Weat aati at By mall, out of Seattle Star (== Ave. Reattle, Wash Pablishing Co, Phone MAla- e400. S months $1 60, clans mation at Beatty, Wn, under act of Marem #, 2478 — | Bea 8 Who Should Pay? | IFTEEN seven hundred and forty-eight thousand, three hundred and fifty-six American citizens voted for Calvin Coolidge for president, This meant that these 15,748,356 were pretty well sat isfied with the American government, for Coolidge’s promise to them was that he wouldn’t change anything It would seem to follow, then, that all of these 15,748. s should be will- ing, if not glad, to pay a little something for the support of this government, In proportion to the amount of material benefit each receives, he ought cheerfully to accept taxation. In the case of some, a dime might cover it. In the case of oth- ers, possibly a million dollars. Practically, of course, income tax ma chinery engaged in collecting dimes would cost more than it could collect. But we think the theory is sound. Every Ameri- ean citizen should pay something for the upkeep of his government, if he is able to do so. He should not want somebody else to pay it for him. So it is hard to sym- pathize with the suggestion that has been made that all income below $5,000 be ex- empted from income tax and with other suggestions of a similar nature. sere million, F the time has come when all the reve- nue needed by the government can be obtained. without imposing the present high surtaxes on large incomes, those high surtaxes sholuld be reduced. The question of how much they should be re- duced is for experts to determine. The taxpayers can only determine the grounds on which the reduction shall or shall not be made. A lot of false grounds have been offered. Secretary Mellon has sol- emnly argued that more money will be obtained from the rich, if their taxes are made lower. It is hard to make that argu- ment hold water. There is just one good reason advanced for reduction, and that is that the government doesn’t need the Money. Analyzing that reason, it is yet to be shown that there remains any necessity for various wartime taxes—such as the 5 per cent tax on automobiles, for example. Shouldn’t they be dropped first, if the government doesn’t need the money? o NCOME tax is the fairest tax that is imposed on the American people. The income taxpayer knows what he pays. The tariff payer—the ultimate consumer of tariff-protected goods—never knows what he is paying, altho he learns every time he investigates the subject that the additional cost of the goods always greatly exceeds the amount of the tariff. If every citizen, including the 8,600,000 who voted for Davis and the 4,700,000 who voted for La Follette, were paying a direct tax for the government's upkeep, each in proportion to his benefit from the scheme of things as they are, a lot of hid- den taxes (tariff-made profits, for in- stance) could be wiped out. And the small taxpayers would be a lot better off. Good Job, Wrong System (ITY council’s annual bout of budg- ing the budget is almost over. And, on the whole, a creditable job has been done, under considerable pressure of pub- lic opinion. But, however good a job the council does, it will fall far short of perfection. It must, under the present inefficient sys- tem of city government, with its duplica- tions and -illogical methods. The ideal, of. course, is a consolidated city and county, run as any other large 2 Q. Does the federal department of & agriculture have pheasants or thetr | ! eggs for distribution? | A. No. The federal department} docs not distribute either pheasants ‘OU can get or any other game virds or their) |New York ave, t | D. C, and inclosing 2 cents tn | ¢gys. Several of the state game} departments have done 80, however,| and inquirers should write to the| | medical, legal chet geme warden of their own| es faa far | | signer & | loose stamps | get the same | be doing so on this coast, ? ? Answers to Your Questions any question of fact or in- | formation by writing Tho Seat- | | | tle Star Question Editor, for or | letters | | bt is run, by a manager and a capa- ble staff of assistants, picid for their ability to work, not their ability to bring in votes on election day This ideal, perhaps, will not be reached rs, Eventually it must come. Mounting government costs will force it, Why Not Pioneer Now? “TORIES of the pioneers, told in The Star, renew the urge in all of us to “get out of all this hustle and bustle and start over. Wonder if a fellow couldn't just pick up the wife and family and light out for a new country? Lots of untouched country left in Washington yet. Wonder if you couldn't get an old Ford and pack the family possessions on it, hit the trail for the mountains, stake out a claim, build a log cabin, spend a few years fighting the wilderness—and get a kick out of it? Many Seattle citizens have felt the thrill the emigrant, setting out from far European cities and countrysides for the new wonderland beyond the horizon. The thrill that comes once in a lifetime, Wonder if a fellow who's lived here for years, settled down into a rut, wouldn't thrill by picking up and starting out, from the grass roots, all over again? Plenty of room to try it Get by with it? Sure you could, if you had the stuff in you. Who'll go? for some 3 of Built ’Plane 'S “best o' luck” will go with the PB-1 when she starts her long flight for Hawaii in a few days. The Seattlebuilt ship from the Boeing works is likely to make aviation history. Tn construction of naval planes Seattle already is a national leader. She bids fair to assume increasing importance in the air field, Puget Sound country is ideal for hydro- plane operation, offering an abundance of smooth water for “landings.” Air fleets of the nation may find shelter on the broad Sound or a thousand inlets along its shores. Already commercial planes fly up and down the Atlantic coast. Sox they will ig passen- gers and fast freight from Seattle to | Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Performance of the Seattle-built PB-1 will do much to arouse new interest in the possibilities of commercial flight here, Weather Predicting IN Ge staff of The Star appears to be having a lot of fun with “dear old Aunt Agnes, of Sedro-Woolley,” whose corns foretold, last week, Seattle’s rain. How many homely ways there are of foretelling the weather: “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, “Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.” Ex-soldiers, many of them, claim their old wounds predict rainy spells. Suffer- ers from rheumatism are proverbial weather forecasters. Most interesting thing in the world is the weather. Why? Largely because it’s uncertain. It keeps up interest in itself by doing the unusual. It challenges. “Guess what I'll do tomorrow,” it jeers. The weather makes little physical dif- ference in our lives nowadays. We go about our work much the same in zero cold or 100-degree heat. Husbands and wivés might take a tip from the weather, visiting pleasant sur- prises on one another, keeping up interest in married life by refusing to become machines, 2 7 | ov Pyramus, who ved in an ad. | joining. house an answer to | Owing to paternal | opposition they could do their courte Mia | pea ene Bea the Shins in the d | "wa his fashion they Washington, | | crranged for a tomb of rendezvous at Thisbe, arriving first, fled at the appearance of a reply. No | | ene marital ad- | gray lion which had just gorged itself on an or. She dropped her robe and j the stained it with blood Pyramus on hia arrival hastily con- lion the |" OUT THE SEATTLE STAR OUR WAY t— PITCH} WHY HE DOESNT KNOW TH FIRST PRINCIPAL ABOUT PITHIN! I HELD "TH GLOVE DOWN HERE,LIKE | HIS, AN-ANO-WELL, HE'S NO PrKHeR! / nee SIMINY CHRISMUS: ANY PITCHER 16 WBOLT’ GIT WILO! ‘AT WAS SUST A WILD One, GOSH ,1 THOT YOvo Ost T KETH ON A “TEAM, WHY MOTHERS GET GRAN COMIN IN ON A WILQ THROW. MONDAY, AUGUST 1 “Respt., He Think b I Knew rT? TKNEW iT ft BUT T THINK WE CAN GET You FiIxXEO UP FoR WH FOCTBALL a SEASON + 5 Wm. Dent’ gut Hie Cherry Crop na es toll I deduet 10 yearn before ® worth gather be os as next have more cher. the fe ree to price seine 118 be glad market bad b Sates a Letter All Letters to The Btar 3 FROM STAR Readers st Have Name and Address TRiniLLiaeas On Legal Reform yeas WY REA SERVICE Inc ayy Concerning Your Husband’s Sox By Mrs. Waller Ferguson vermit me to ¢ and simplifies and ambiguous Ie- 1 ly-edeign IDGE | aune she nan to Ur. Fixit of The Star | Undertakes Here to Remedy Your Troubles, if They Are of Public Interest Mr. Frit: Has the U. government an army store {ts o1n in Beattie? If #0, where ts {f located? The t if doen to be no ewouss for Ub nove. BE. 8. he Veterans burean Is 1 service, and thone the t are given the 6 | of tates gov t operate a ‘on tn The ’ nomne The Seat re better than I iin er manager t » that many ex © employed there. the government nut of Weiser, Idaho. 8, PETERSON, Route 1 late. This dog MONDAY, AUGUST 17 If no, you are timid. You jack aggressiveness. And have little self You will never reach and traffic Can you ric fidence 1 is badly needed. BLUE-BYED SALLY Unlean you dev 0 Fistt At 10th ave. N. F. fight rit | and EF. 45th st. there should be You a eat. a traffi or sign At And r continua] encourage times ble for nt pedestrians The To keep you going | di do not pay any atten- Don't b tion to the Put a high value on yourself. Conquer Dur goal fidence Mr And more it is almost imposs imposed on. crossing. MRS. I fr of tl et de M,C. your wea M And you can partme ris that he has un both son his Ii | | | o-oo © created ces bard to time pe to prove 1s jaat as ah nalst that a hus band should mow his own lawn in order to make the wort! be- eve that he ls a home-loving husband. hasten just dence can be and should be gone over, for now the exceptions to many long-established rules have amotherel the rutes themselves “D phraseology.” ‘This depends what you mean. Phraseology ix very Smportant y all im portant words have been judi- clally defiried, cach word has an exact meaning. A good lawyer very carefully gis to ota is, to say and to nis de- awyer himself. gulde runs mmon sense and modert I differ with AND speaking mending, f ust why should Calvin p on wear It neem# to ifthe pre thing man, The princ ery definite ew come ities ewed-uy don a pair of stockings. Teach the bumr f, bein keep on with your when 6o being a man, the ends the ou f the ugated hosiery? a of tread paths might you here We nv Abe Proce nd ing with ne of WHAT FOLKS SAY awit SESE DES ES AIOE ROBERT COWIE, Amer Railway rnia’s gr stopped by president to insure r If precedent ide, no man’s pr er old but eter it fs only the case which is new, Simple justice should be the end of all « Common sense is good, but what is com- mon sense? “Two weeks’ judges Instead months.” Express: aco fi could not two Floridas. the Ca wth perturbed by fda boom? I nal, devel m commonwealth.” DR. J. M. SCANLAND, San Francisco; “It is healthier to have your neck bare. I have staged my Jast button hunt and from now on I will wear no man’s collar.” vacation of as for many I must differ with you again Did you ever sit in with a King county judge, day in and day out for a we all different; each to examine and consider; to ict jurors, listen to attor nd witnesses and prepare Any man on the King county bench faithfully serving for 10 months of this DR. WALTER ALVAREZ. U. of C.: “On adcount of our inter est In vitamins, We, are giving foods to people whith are im possible of digestion. Persons hospitals get along very without being. staffed with vitamin entitled 1 | relax and 5 bitter as t IT am will take more than the lawyers to bring about need- nin the really important needed. It up to ; s itself to help. It pays the freight on delay, expense. We should have an arbitration jaw here. Many questions could be settled by arbitration in a day which now © months. We should have § reform. I prefer jurors who the ed refor know the ‘Technical techni- most least should pass upon t the Judges to It's reto do so, An falling to grasp the fine points in a technical case anda silent judge who does grasp them, make for mincar- riage of justices or a gambler’s - luck. Another thing, the most im- portant. Both the bar and bust- ness men who know should edu- cate the public to an apprecia- tion of just what an honest law- yer's opinion means to every in- dividual. ‘There are too many lawsuits, which can be traced to failure of one or both litl- ants consult counsel first. Instead of the lawyer acting ‘as & pilot, he has to act as a wreck- er and pull some business bark from the rocks of ignorance People call in lawyers afterwards instead of first. I can show you that the majority of litigated cases were the resul’ of a wrong start which might haye been avoided. We live in a compli- cated age, and legal\pilotage ts the cheapest service & man can hire, yet people are afraid to call on a lawyer until they find them- selves hopelessly entangled. There is the real difficulty. HENRY W. POWELL, 923 Alaska Bldg. mmoy orant jury DONT Take it away “Don’t take it away. Now that I know what this washer will do, I could never get along without it.” These are the very words we hear from tens of thousands of housewives after they have seen a M | Gyrafoam demonstrated on their own washing in their own homes, Q. What was the total wheat crop | | cluded that Thisbe had de-| You for t ignal of the United States for 1923? Als voured and 0 killed himself, and| But the total corn and apple crop for | "exed to the United States? Thisbe, returning, immolated herself| You would be the same year? | A. There are cight inhabited) on his corpse, sf ‘A. Wheat, 867,598,000 busheta;|islands—Hawail, Maui, Oahu, Kauai,| eee corn, 3,054395,000 bushels, and ap-|Molokat, Lanat, Nithau and Kaz| Q. what les, $4,508,000 varrels. hoolawe. There are in addition aev-| state Pa eit "i ft aes aes eral amail, uninhabited ones. The| storma and Dina ‘as hs beeen Q. How should white satin pbe|{#ands were formally annexed to) A. The Pacific Coast states have ‘washed? jthe United States August 12, 1898.| the fewest, and the Mississippi val-| A. Wash it in lukewarm water| Ths was at therr own request and|tey and the Southern states gener. MA. pure scapeuds, Do rub,| there was no financial consideration. | ally have moat but squeeze the dirt out, Rinse well cet | 60 8 in several waters and put bluing in the last rinse water dark place dry. wrong side. been are ver and nd when and how were they an rarely s ty mone Ho hope t this If you were le 0% | soon ST In Our New Building Keeping pace with the progress of this rapidly growing section of the city, the West Seattle State Bank has today occu- pied its beautiful and commodious new building on Alaska Street at California Avenue. Fe't oe section of the Unitea | SLUMBER ROOM * More Privacy not Q. Who were Pyramus and! q is available in our. slumber room, for there the family may be alone, if they wish, free from interruption of any kind. } What is the largest horae and | |mule market in the United characters in a\ A. The largest ts Kast jclassic myth which Shakespeare | Louis, Ill, and the second largest ta !burlesques in the interlude in “A| sald to be at the stockyards in Chi-| ands| Midsummer Night’s Dream. Thiabe | cago. the Hawaiian group,|was a Babylonian maiden beloved | wee Hang in a\'Thisbe? to Iron the) A, They were on it Q. How many inhabited | 91 are there in Q. Please describe plece of 18657 A. Obsorse: Bust of liberty to left, with lock of hair removed from over the ear and curla on forehead ex. tended down to the car, which {a visible; in hair a fillet inscribed TAberty; 19 stars around; below, 1865. Reverse: An eagle, with wings displayed, the head turned to left, bearing on breast shield of the U. 8. an olive branch in right claw and three arrows in the left; below, TEN D, Reeded edge. Size 17; weight 129 gra. { A THOUGHT B ——_—_—_—_—_/ upon his He that is greedy In fact, he@aubs it troubleth his own he that hateth gifts shail tor Proverbs x When 4 unles PPV ip eternal George Sand. the $10 gold Fy SANA F It is such facilities as this that have tended to make the use of our splendid mortuary so nearly universal. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend our open house today, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. WEST SEATTLE | STATE BANK Resources Over $600,000.00 Cyrafoam Washer | & = TUBS, | Whether you wish to buy or Not, telephone us and let a May- tag do your next washing for you. Then you will know wheth- er or not you can afford to do without a Maytag. HUSTOULUUEULRUTEPOLUTUTLUUE UOT IE bedroom floor is badly worn where kiddie's feet have tramped The woodwork's of its luster shorn and needs to be revamped, x father buys some paint and she!lac, a limber brush or two, and boasts he has the knack of fixing things anew, The room is cleared of odds and ends, as dad turns to his tasks. Peace and quiet shortly ends when little sonny asks, * ya, will ya, dad? Aw, lemme paint a while.’ tad just kinda makes dad smile #0 sonny quickly starts to dip a brush down in the ful’ is a kindly tip, and yet to no avail, ‘There clothing and there's paint splashed on the door every place except upon the floor $ At last the painting's finished and a brand new Job's begun, dad must clean the spots where little sonny's had his fun W youngsters beg to ald you, never greet them with a frown You're not afraid you'll tear their willing spirit down, Copyright, 1925, tor The Star) So d proudly ee ‘ Burendorth, His Aw, lemme help The int'rest of the tiny Se Mortuary “SUPERIOR E8 EUNERAL ; SERVICE <ays,, MAYTAG SHOP 949 | Phone BLlotaSTL 1610 Third Ave se Shops in Bellingham, Vverett, Kelso, Yakima Alaska at California WEst-0230 Phone for demonstration pail —there's no obligation. care OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS A. C, ‘THOMPSON STARKS, of gain yt i President live, — Vice President and Cashier HOWE, Vice President THEO, FIUNUUVUUEOUUUGEUUUUUUTEATETUUUUUAUATAVU TATU JOHN A JENSEN but one virtue—the sacrifice of self, STUVLLUUUINUG LAU UEUUTULUUEOULUUUGLGUEUUUEETAG AAA LA r=] i iG \ i na iii MR,