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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
Bus Line Hating
Is Ordered Upheld

TACOMA. April 20. - Federal
Judges Cushman. Nettcrer and Hunt.
sitting en- banc yesterday. held the
state certificate OF public necessity
hw regulating auto transportation
does not conflict with the federal con-
otitution-
They denied Walter Bliss Of Ever.
EFT an INDUCTION 20 prevent state Of
hciais from enforcing their order
hating operation OF his bus line from
Everett 10 Olympia via Tacoma and
Seattle.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20

The following article by Coun.
Gilman Oliver 4. Erickson.
author Of the three cent cartare
ordinance which viii be voted
ON nj the polls MAY :. l. printed
In this newspaper merely 10 IN
form seattle citifens Of Mr..
Fricksan's point Of view on his
proposition. In mo sense v u
10 be regarded a. indicating
The stars attitude on the sub.
jcct--Editor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
HOW CAN RELIEF
HURT MA>IFACTtR ERSs

That under tho threescrnt fare btu
they win be compelled 10 share In
this burden and to tina, extent re
tieve both employer and employee.
ny what stretch OF the imagination
can u ba assumed that such relief
VIII destroy the employers ability 10
compete with other ciiicsf Manifest.
~. II win help them. Are manufac-
turrru In Seattle too stupid 10 realize
that car farra help 90 make up the
cos, Of iiVinxf And that cost Of Nv
Ing enters the cost OF MANUFACTURED
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
OPPONENTS RAISE
Af.I.UtD CRY

They cry that more taxes viii
drive industry from Seattle - old
stuff. Tweniy.Heycn years ago the
city voted 10 build the Cedar river
water system. The city taxes were
about 10 mills. The morning Of the
election "a daily paper had two pages
Of news like this 'iiy a vote Of b2
20 3 the Chamber Of Commerce last
evening Expressed its dinapprovM Of
the ordinance providing for the In.
crease Of the city debt 20 construct a
gravity system Of water from Cedar
fivcr''
Herman Chaplin: II Hny most I'm.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
ny OLIVER T. ERICKSON

In the campaign against the scent
fare bin we are confronted with
ncarccrow that has done duty IN
many drives against the equalization
Of taxation. II Is tho assertion that
any effort on tho part OF wagework'
srs 10 unload the burden that has
been saddled on them In high ear
fares win result In loss OF Jobs.
This argument Is based on the alb
surd and humiliatlng theory that
wealth Il produced by the en-
pioyer. and wagc-workcrs are de
pendent upcn tho crumbs that fall
from his hands. Those who under
stand the rudiments OF political eco
uomy know that labor must be paid
from the wealth n creates and no,
from the purse OF some mother
bcuntifui.
SOME WAGE FARMERS
LIKE CRuMB THEORY
There are wage workers who cling
20 the crumh theory and denounce
anyone who challenges IL. Recently,
one r.. q. Worth wrote 10 The star
and abused me like a rlekpocket
Why Because have helped In sub
hitting 10 the voters a plan TO more
eauitshiy distribute the $1,000. goo q
year We are taxed for car fares. Tie
proclaims: Il am sick unto death
Of being saved BY community savers
like Erickson. NV Job and interest
depends on the welfare OF my EN-
pioyer." He winds up with this
-. 80 -, .,stffl,- - ,,araa~.a iIv
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20

My interest I'm lower car fares In
the first instance WAS prompted by a
desire TO help manufacturers and
merchants. II requires Title
thought. but not much. 20 demon
itrate that u H. 10 the Interest OF
manufacturers and merchants 20
have labor efficient In some coun'
riea. the education. culture, coin
tort aud recreation of labor To pro
mote efficiency has been studied
more than here. nut progressive
employers have long given Il ntten'
zion ia this country.
We spend vast sums for schools,
libraries. hospitals. churches. parks
and other institutions. All contribute
"a make men and women moro efif.
Client. H. u not folly 10 spend these
vast sums ana destroy half their
value by prohihitive car fnrrsf
Would IL not be wise 20 make them
twice as serylernhle ns they have
ever been with a three cent farof
My plan "a promote trade and
manufacturing by a threo-ccnt fare
was laid before the voters about a
year ago. Did the land spectators
and limousine riders complain then
that it would inIure business and
drive manufacturing from the city.
No. they set up "a shout that taxation
for the operation and maintenance %
the street railway would confineate
work lnrfnensn homeA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20

ny LOOMING al theo~ thbteN any
merchant or manufacture can see
that the charge Of coufincation II
false. These home owners will enjoy
the larger benefits that come from
low car fares VIII save enough 20
pay the added taxes and have q sub
rsantiai surplus Go spend for rccres.
ton ard the comforts OF life.
When these tables began 10 eircu
late over the city. the land specu.
laiorn and limousine riderS stopped
shouting oonfscation. and had TO
learn how TO whistle new tune.
They are now shedding tears for the
poor manufacturer and rich building
owner who. In the frs, instance. was
no abundantiy able 20 take care 81
himself Then. too. adopted the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
- KEEP WELL
Cooperate!
BY DR. X. II. BISHOP

~ AtifibHN FFF y
community. large
or small. there
are public health
agencies brought
into b Elm & and
supported by tax
payers money.
Such agencies
are there solely
to serve and help
you.
They employ
-ornpetent doctors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
HIRE ~ WHAT
FIGURES SHOW

| Acknowledged that " ihat we're
true our thr-~-c.nt fare cake would
b. dough Beeausr confiscatiou Of
homes would not make labor more
efficient. but less And my theory
az promoting business and rnanufae.
turing with labor enjoying more com.
fort and freedom would be exploded.
To demonstrate what will happen 10
the wage.worker owning his own
home Nc prepared two tables. One
81 a home arsessed at $500 and an.
other az $500. The range between
shes~ two sets Of figures and lower
will cover 90 per cent OF the work.
lnxmen'a homes In this city.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20

cause they can make Erenter profits
here with a tax levy Of 30 mile than
they can in Duvall or iasaauah with
10 uliia
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20

Dave Schooler Orpheim raudepie audiences the country
orer are acquainted Nth this young chap He is piano
PLAYER of ability At the Moore this week aided bg COM
pany Of clever artists Mr. Schooier is presenting splendid
musical act He himself plays all sorts Of music during the
He st the tastes Of the audience and T. proud
OF the fact that he improrses popular melodies oeH as
those Of serious rein.
Sehooler is American trained bv American teachers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
BOY Is PROTECTOR
OF PARK ANIMALS

Grand High Sheriff Of Wood
land Park Zoo Is the lofty title
borne by Joseph Hahn, 15.year.
old schoolboy, who lives at AIS
~. 4sth ave.
When Joseph saw other chill.
drcn-and grownups, too--teasing
and tormenting the animals in
their cages. he went to Keeper
Gus Knutson and wanted to do
something about It.
Knutson pinned a star on Jo-
seph's shirt, stuck a billy in his
hand and pair OF handouts in
his pocket. and said. Hop to f."
And he did. as many an offend
or has found out.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
YEARLY SAVING
WITH EE.CE>T FARE

Tareu and car fnr~. -.......s
aAYinr In year. Slf.lo.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-20
Infants Shirts
ACC Each

An Ea tern jobber's
cleanup of Infants Shirts
of medium weight wool
mixed, and medium-weight
cotton in button-down the
front or lap-over styles.
Sizes / to 5. Also Silk and
Wool Bands.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
AMERICAN MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY
BY TT. MAxEY
o. western Newspaper Union.

THE eornerstone of the home of
this wonderful collection in Man
haitian Square, New York City, which
contains some ten acres of floor space,
was laid by President Grant in 1877.
The purpose of this great 'curios-
ity shop is to procure actual spec
linens upon which accurate knowl-
edge of the animals, birds, minerals
and other wonders of the world are
based and exhibit them for the editica
ton of the public.
A few of the displays which attract
particular attention, the like of which
probably does not exist elsewhere, are:
the largest known meteorite, brought
from Greenland and weighing 36 tons {;
an Indian dugout 6412 feet long, made
from a single tree; a section Of
California tree, 16 feet In diameter
and more than 1900 years old; a
life-size model of 70 foot whale,
probably the largest animal that ever
lived and which probably weighed 20
tons; mounted specimens of more diff
erent kinds of birds than you imagine
the world contains a collection of i'm
plements used by prehistoric man,
representing q period of approximate
ly 250,O00 years; exhibits of fishes,
including some so primitive as to
be scaleless an exhibit Of snakes that
gives you the creeps; an intensely
interesting exhibit showing how dis
ease is transmitted by insects, and
a library of some 10000 volumes on
natural history, travel and anthropol-
ogy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

Hoof beats quickening on the trail--
Grind of train wheels on the rail
Motor swerving sharp and sheer
Steamboat reaching for the pier
Curve or headland, break or bend
| must pass, and at the end
Stand the home hills, clean and
clear.
Thus, when fate my spirit brings
To the ordained end of things,
shall come as now | come
Through far spaces wearisome,
Through the shrouding wells that lie
Twixt time and eternity;
Till there blaze against the sky,
Gold and jade-the Hills of Home.
BY c. I. Davis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

While I watch with eager eyes
Sudden bursting into view
Sharp etched on the skies clean blue
Lo, the hills of home arise.
Always round the curve they lie
Waiting hid as draw nigh,
Till l pass the angled bend,
And the last long slope ascend,
And the shortening road runs straight
There to welcome me they wait
Hills of home, and journeys end.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

out, and the druggist, who had over
heard, remarked: sYou didn't do any
good, did you?"
eyes, sah," came the reply. us
dat colored boy. what's working down
there. rs jest checking up to see
how / stand"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

"Is he givin' perfect satisfaction ?"
"Yes, he's giving perfect satisfac-
tion'
"Well, Mistah Jones, providen this
colored boy don't give perfect salts
faction, you call me at 504.''
The colored boy turned and started
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01
HILLS OF HOME

Here is one of the finest poems
that the editor has come across
in many a day The editor
recognizes a kindred soul who,
like himself, has been many times
ION the road"
After long days when l come
Once more from far rowing home,
Old loved landmarks, friendlywis,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01
CHECKING UP

A colored boy walked into a local
drug store and asked permission to
use the telephone; then he called up
Mr.. Jones, and the following CONVEX
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

sation took place:
rs this you, MistaF Jones?"
YES
"Wel,, Mistah Jones, | saw you
ad in de paper the other day and yo'
wanted a colored boy. Did you get
one?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

Spend your union-earned money
where you will receive benefit there
from-ask for the union label, card
and button.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

We can forget all about our enc
mics if we will always demand the
union label, card and button our
selves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01

find promptly
agreed protect his until his appointed
Politically Harding
Underwood fights
fair Underwood the Republican the ablest
will and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-09-01
Underwood of the big Four"

The people seem TO be we'll salts
fed with the big Four"--Hughes. Root,
Lodge and Underwood-wh have been
selected by President Harding to rep
resent the United States at the disarm-
ament conference. 1.-THE foreigners
will have a fine time putting over any
thing on that bunch" is the way this
satisfaction is frequently expressed.
Senator Oscar w. Underwood of
Alabama (portrait herewith Is the
Democrat on the delegation. He was
born in Kentucky in 1862. He has
served ten terms in the house and is
serving his second term in the senate
His appointment surprised no one, for
he and President Harding have been
close friends for six years There are
those who say that Harding likes Un-
derwood best of all the Democrats and
thinks him the ablest When Harding
was elected, the Republican majority
in the senate was only two votes and
he had either to occupy his seat or else
Connecticut western news., 1922-09-14

about downstairs, even if he was not one who had a right to be there, at least felt secure from interruption. He was going with heavy step from window to window; where he found a shade up, he pulled it down brusquely and with a violence which suggested great strength under a nervous strain i; a shade, which had been pulled down, flew up, and the man damned 1t as though 1t had startled him then, after an instant, he pulled 1t down again.
 Alan crept still farther down and at last caught sight of him. He was n big, young-loOking man, with broad shoulders and very evident vigor Alan guessed his age at thirty-five; he was handsome-he had a straight forehead over daring, deep-set eyes i; his nose, lips and chin were power fully formed; and he was expenstvely and very carefully dressed. The light by which Alan saw these things came from . fiat little pocket searchlight that the man carried in one hand. which threw a little brilliant circle of light as he directed 1t; and now, as the light chanced to fall on his other hand-powerful end heavily muscled Allan recollected the look and size of the finger prints on the chest of drawers upstairs. He did not doubt that this was the same man who had gone through the desk; but since he had already rifled the desks, what did he want here now7 As the man moved out of sight, Alan crept on down as far as the door to the library; the man had gone on into the rear room, and Alan went far enough into the library so he could see him.
 He had pulled open one of the draw CTS in the big table in the rear room and with his light held so high as to show what was in it. he was tumhling
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over its contents and examining them. He went through one after another of the drawers of the table like this after examining them, he rose and kicked the last one shut disgustedly; he stood looking about the room ques- tioningly, then he started toward the front room.
 He had. as yet, neither seen nor heard anything to alarm him, and as he went to the desk in the front room and peered impatiently into the draw CTS, he slammed them shut, one after another He straightened and stared about "D-n Beni D-n Ben !" he calculated violently and returned to the rear room. Alan, again following him, found him on his knees in front of one of the drawers under the book cases. AS he continued searching through the drawers, his irritation be- came greater and greater. He jerked one drawer entirely out of its case, and the contents flew in every dlrec- ton; swearing at it, he gathered up the letters. One suddenly caught his attention; he began reading it closely, then snapped 1t back into the drawer, crammed the rest on top of 1t, and went on to the next of the files. He searched In this manner through half a dozen drawers, plainly finding noth- ing at all he wanted; he dragged some of the books from their cases, felt be- hind them and showed back some of the books but dropped others on the floor and blasphemy burst from him. The beam of light from the, torch in his hand swayed aside and back and forth. Without warning, suddenly 1t caught Alan as he stood in the dark of the front room; and as the dim white circle of light gleamed into AL ans face, the man looked that way and saw him. a
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big hands who had left marks upon the top of the chest of drawers and the feeling that he had been in the house very recently was stronger than ever
 Alan ran out into the hall and lis tened he heard no sound; but he went back to the little room more excited than before. For what had the other. man. been searching? For the same things which Alan was looking for? And had the other man got them7 Who might the other be, and what might be his connection with Benja- min Corvet? Alan had no doubt that everything of importance must have been taken away, but he would make sure of that He took some of the pa pers from the drawers and began to examine them; after nearly an hour of this, he had found only one article which appeared connected in any way with what Sherrill had told him or with Alan himself. Tn one of the little drawers of the desk he found several books, much worn as though from being carried in a pocket, and one of these contained a series of entries stretching over several. years. These listed an amount-$150-oppo a se- ries of dates with only the year and the month given, and there was au entry for every second month.
 Alan felt his fingers tremblirS AG turned the pages of the little book and found at the end of the list a blank, and below, in the same hand but in writing which had changed slightly with the passage of years, an other date and the confirming entry of $1 800. Alan looked through the little book again and put it in his pocket. It was, beyond doubt, lis fathers memorandum of the sums sent to Blue Rapids for Alan; 1t told him that here he had been in his fathers thoughts. He grew warm at the thought as he began putting the other things back into the drawers.
 He started and strengthened sudden ly; then he listened attentively. and his skin, warm an instant before, turned cold and prickled. Somewhere within the house, unmistakably on the floor below him, a door had slammed. Some one-it was beyond question now, for the realization was quite diff ferent from the feeling he had had about that before-was in the house with him. Was 1t his father who had come back7 That, though not impossible, seemed improbable.
 Alan stopped quickly, unlaced and stripped off his shoes, and ran out into the hall to the head of the stairs. where he looked down and listened. From here the sound of some one nov ing about came to him distinctly; he could see no light below, but when he ran down to the turn of the stairs, 1t became plain that there was a very dim and flickering light in the library. He crept on farther down the stair case. His hands were cold and moist from his excitement, and his body was hot and trembling.
 Whoever it was that was moving
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yet, since Sherrill had told him he was Corvet's son, had called him by name; when they did, what would they call him? Alan Conrad still2 Or Alan Corvet?
 He noticed, up street to the west, the lighted sign of a drug store and turned up that way; he had promised, he had recollected now, to write to those in Kansas-he could not call them father and mother" any more-and tell them what he had dis covered as soon as he arrived. He could not tell them that, but he could write them at least that he had ar rived safely and was well. He bought a postcard in the drug store, and wrote just, Arrived safely; am well' to John Welton in Kansas. There was a little vending machine upon the coun- ter, and he dropped In a penny and got a box of matches and put them in his pocket.
 He mailed the card and turned back to Astor street; and he walked more swiftly now, having come to his ded- sion, and only shot one quick look up at the house as he approached 1t. With what had his father shut himself up within that house for twenty years2 And was 1t there still? And was it from that that Benjamin Corvet had fled? He saw no one In the street, and was certain no one was observing him as, taking the key from his pocket, he ran up, the steps and unlocked the
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Copyright by Edwin BalmsE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER I.-Wealthy and highly placed in the Chicago business world, Benjamin Corvet IS something of a re- After a stormy interview with his part ner, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks Con- stance Sherrill, daughter of his other secures from her promise not to marry Spearman. He then disappears. Sherrill learns Corvet has written to a certain Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and exhibited strange agitation over the matter.
 CHAPTER II-Corvet's letter summons Conrad, a youth of unknown parentage, to Chicago.
 CHAPTER III.-From a statement of Sherrill 1t seems probable Conrad is Cor vets illegitimate son. Corvet has deeded his house and it's contents to Alan.