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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
TAX EXEMPT
SECURITIES

Editor Tho Star:
would like 20 present tho case
IN behalf OF tax-free securities. Mr.
Mellon and other men Of big vested
interests are leading n cruradc for
tho abolition Of iax-free securities.
with tho avowed purpose Of taxing
wealth into the opcn for usc ia
transportation. commerce and other
live" business, Secondly, they
claim tina, large amounts OF money
will be taxed which have heretofore
escaped their just burden ard hnyo
thereby worked n hardship upon
the people with small fixed incomes
Municipalities and states. how
ever. must continue 10 issue bon1a
for the construction OF highways
schools and power and water
projects where. then, win the
money come from 70 carry on these
necessary works? The answer Is
that cities and states WIN have to
increase the rate Of interest on
their bond issues and big investors
will continue 70 keep their money
In this form OF security. thereby do
fsating the first benefit claimed for
the abolition OF tax-free securities.
Tho taxing OF this form Of Sc
curity would also effect n change
contrary 20 that which its adyo-
Gates claim ms tho second point in
It's favor. with increased interest
rates, the bondholders will have
shifted this new tax burden onto
the shoulders OF the common tax
payers, or. as In the case OF munich
pal power and water plants. they
will take this tex e,s... st tbs pock-
cts OF consumers In the fopn OF
higher rates for service.
The reactionary press and the
men OF great wealth arc fighting
tax-free scurities with the sole pur-
pose of hindering the rapid growth
OF public ownership OF public utIll-
ties They know that IL public
service projects arc shackird with
high interest rates, taxpayers will
be reluctant 10 allow their cities 20
engage in utility development.
The public wants a reduction In
taxes ana 10 have the burden placed
on those who are best able 10 bear
II. II Is 10 take advantage OF this
widespread feeling that Mr.. Mellon
and others, who hold trusteeRhips
and offices OF executive responsibility
In big privately owned utility corp.
orations, arc launching this drive
against tuS.frce securities and are
claiming such great solicitudc for tho
welfare Of the small taxpayer.
Tho public. however wants a real
reduction in taxes and just dis.
trihution of the burden. No smoke.
screen measures win do.
DAVID sHRlADER.
STA Eighteenth Ave. No.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
REGARDING VICE

steps 20 tho har and calls for n
drink. no Is served. The bartender
turns his back ana monkeys with
glasses on tho hack bar. Tho ElnE
leaning against tho wall starts nlug.
ins and dancing and ora OF them
turns his arm AROUND the etranEes
who Is taking bis drink. and puts
his knee IN thu small Of his hack
while me others 80 thru bis pockets.
The oct being completed, the bar.
tender faces front again. and says,
Now. boys, Hing all you want and
dance. but do no, night The
stranger looks for a police officer
70 save him from his frionda."
Now have seen tho Same man
who was running that dump. IN a
Seattle church. with a Bible sproad
on Ills kncgn. with two young
maidena, ono on each aide % him,
whom ! took 20 BE- two daughters
Of his.
Now as 90 tho moral question.
10 Il question that has got e
be taken with an iron hand, and
that BY tho civil authorities.
G. y. LESTER. Pine at.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
FIRE HORSES FUTURE

Editor The Star.
! saw an article in your paper
regarding tho fire horses. who after
March must make room for the
mechanical fro devices. Tho fro
laddles arc worried over what is 10
become OF them after their faithful
services arc no longer needed.
Surely a city like OURS Is hbie 10
pension them off. or let them out
TO light services with tho city park
board or aome other light work.
wouldn't Il BIO crime to sell them
TO hardship and slavery and prob
ably abuse7 wo should hang our
heads in shame even over such an
idea.
Those horses have had tho best
OF cnre. They are intelligent And
cruelty and neglect now would be
brutal in the extreme. In fact, Il
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Editor The star.

Editor The Star,
In regard 10 your question. ''Has
DR., Brown made Eood7s Doc Brown
has made tho best mayor Hsatile
has had since I FIRST voted in feat.
tie. IN 1889. Morally and sanltariiy,
tho city n cleaner today than al
any tlno have known H.
II preachers and others go thru
their fIeclcs. find the source of their
income which u paying their tsb
aries. and advise the poiies accord.
Ing to tho teachings OF tho Bible.
tht police win not have 30 much
TO do. -
To illustrate what J mean:
a certain party ran a saloon dur.
Ing the Kiondiks rush IN 'ps. He
sold whisky and beer straight. There
were no mirrors IN tho back bar.
an being on q corner II had tyso
entrances, II was common sight
10 see q gang outside watching the
performances going on inside and On
inauirsng from them you would have
received this reply; They arc work
ing the 'strongarm': that Is 10 say.
when atranger enters one door.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
ON A SKAGIT SHOWDOWN

that Tacoma u producing power AZ
hulf and less thnn hair what We aro
hoping 10 get Il FOR from the RIsasit.
How Is Seattle 20 got Industries by
offering chez power when tho Ia.
coma plant can sell az halt the ratio
Seattle can,
How Doc Brown has tho nerve 20
so blhndly on and tay. ~rho wonder.
ful skagit Not dollar has been
squandered. We win SO right ahead
aud build more units" Is more ihan
J can sec. Erickson and Lundin show
that they arc business men al my
rate. and true friends % the skagii,
when they demand that the uuac.
counted. hendlong skagit develop.
ment be laid before tho people IN ia
real facts before we have gone % fnr
as 20 have another white elephant
Ike tho street railway. / hope sou
find space Tor this. Very truly
yours. BERTRAND ADAMS.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
THANKS FOR POISON EDITORIAL
Editor The Star.

Editor The Star.
Allow mo TO thank and con.
grntuIate you for your front page
editorial OF February 1, headed
Poison Has No Place in Our
Schools"
Much credit is also duo TO our
most worthy superintendent OF
schools. Mr.. A. $. Burrows. for not
allowing our public schools TO be
used MS propaganda factory for
the Northwest Electric Light &
Power Co. The Pierce county su.
perintendent OF schools. who took
similar actor. should also DO con.
graduated.
IL is indeed encouraging to see
that you nrc giving this matter due
publicity and exposing this high.
CHASED smoke-pcrcene propaganda
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

ignore the fundamental. the eco
nonic. causes Of the origin. deyeI.
opment, ascendency, decIipe and fall
OF nations. but attempt TO creditor
debit so-called great men with all
Of these.
The PIT. A. is being used for the
same purpose - propaganda Re
Gently On essay Of Judge TolleyF
New York city, which contained IT.
tie else than faisiiics subtiy clothed
10 prepare the unwary to be sub
misslve tools for sthe next great
war" was broadcasted for reading
TO PIT. A. units OF tho stats--and
presumably the nation.
A lone speaker and obscure pen
with no means for largo publicity
can do little in exposing such bunk.
but II such papers as The Star
would tackle tho Job. something
would be heard TO drop"
WILL a. ROBINSON,
Pearson. Wash
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would 30 a disgrace 10 our city. n
they were sold. and I th!nk that
every fair.minded citizen agrees
with me. and IN case Of need. would
all be willing 10 30 taxed little
extra for their keep. Tho Lorl
knows we pay taxes enough. but q
few cents added 10 what We already
have makes just ilt,io bit more,
rs tho saying gees. and Il would
neither make us nor break us.
j can feel for the fire laddles
Just how their hearts ache over
parting with their pets and com.
rades. ! em great lover OF oil
things dumb and want them to
have fair play. say either put
them to sleep In a humane why or
pension them off. but don't sell
them 10 outsiders.
MRS. n. RUNSTETTER,
s1i3 w. Gsth 81.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
Teachers Meet

Supervisors and Industrial teachers
of Seattle schools met Thursday
night at Dartnall's cafeteria. Speak.
ers included Robert Groeock OF
Franklin high. Il. Il. Holmes. school
director and Herman V. Mattern. of
Lowell school. John Cairnduff sang.
He was accompanied by Miss Grace
Slusscr.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

Editor The star:
As & friend Of public ownership
think there should 10 commentator
given The Star for demanding a
showdown on tho skagit. ! wonder
II anyone IN Seattle really knows
how far we have drifted ia that Orgy
OF expenditure on The Skagit
Tacoma Is building AZ The muniel'
pal plant az Lake cushman a project
which Is only costing sTe per horse.
power 10 install. aud with $4,000, zoe
demanded for tho skagits first unit
sS,Ooo,coO being for a permanent
dam. the per horsepower cost viii be
between 5000 and $500 Tacoma u
getting az cushman $4,000 horsepow.
err for $3.50. 900. we have spent sii.s
coo. 900 in the first unit Of tho Skugit
and have no power. and q % ostimnt
I'd that this 100000 will bring In
81. 600 TO 30. 900 n. b.. which means
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

against tho most valuable asset our
Our city possesses. namely. our
municipal light plant. However. We
must be on the lookout for many
other such dubious and dangerous
methods from that source to deceive
the public, particularly between now
and the next state election.
Tho power question will certainly
be tho livest issue 20 bo fought
out at this election. This viii be
no pink tea party as tho private
power interests are rolling tho dice
for an empire" and 1t behootes us
all to be on the lookout to con.
serve and protect the most valuable
of all our natural rcsourccs-wster.
power, J. c. UNGER.
Seattle. Wash.
320s Ralnler Ave.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

Editor Ihc huari
Shake, n you dont object to tho
caiIcussd hand Of farmer. The
preferred hand 10 IN emphatic APP
proyai Of your poison editorial.
But ] hope you viii not let that
ono editorial end the exposure.
Eternal vigilance Il tho price Of
truth no less than OF liberty.
Shakespeare once wrote. when
the devil would his blacklist aims
put on. no does al first suggest
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
SCHOOL PROPAGANDA

with heavenly show" The "heav-
emily show IN this pariic "a
OF subtle propaganda OF private
owners OF public utilities Is tine
81 900 prizo offered for tho sols 90
purpose Of stimulating 'r''iascd "a
belief in private ownership.
An observer possessing even a
snAtterinK OF psychological Law can
sco tho causativr force back Of that
prize. That $1,000 ia expected 20
net big profits for its Eiyor. Were
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07
LETTERS TIE IL EDITOR
WANTS DISTRICT CLEANED UP

almost impossible condition of cur
streets bounded on the south by
king a.. tho north by Yesler way.
the west by First ave. s., ana Tie
east by Fourth ave r.
For many years this entire dls.
trict has been "a disErucs 20 IA civil.
lgcd community; The pavement full
OF holes aud deproaslons filled with
fifth. broken automobile parts and
staguant water Apparently no hon,
est effort % being made hy city
officers 20 remedy this condition.
CIAE. Al. DIAL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

Editor The STAR
knowing your desire 20 further
tho welfare OF tho city Of Seattle
and aid In securing tho best 70.
turns upon tho largo sums invested
IN advertising eur eity, am ap.
peailng 90 you % start and prose-
cute TO successful conclusion an
agitation that VIII immediately re.
move the worst impression possible
10 give tourists and visitors coming
into our city by rail
refer TO the dlaEraceful and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

DoBERr MANTELf. Americas
~ most famous ehakespearean vet.
eF1n actor. returns 20 the Metrppoii'
tan thcaier tho week beginning
March ~. IN What win probably he
his final Pacific coast tour. u was
announced "Wednesday by the local
thcater management. Manieli. With
Gcnevlcyc Hamper and biz com.
pany " players. VII appear 10 d
classical Of repertoire with Sir III.
wBrd Bulwer.Lylton's "Iliehelieu
ha tho only number other than
Shakespeare works.
The famous yetemn. than whom
there Is no greater" according 20
most critics, viii present seven
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

plays:
Monday. ''TlicheiIen''. Tuesday.
''JIamlet'; wednesday matinee. ''As
You Like IT,; Wednesday evening.
Julius Caesar: Thursday, King
Lear, Friday. "Nsebcth': satur.
day matinee. Merchant OF Venice"
aud Saturday evening. 'Ricbeiseu."
students and lovers OF William
Shakespeare works have debt OF
gfntliude 20 Mantell whose roper.
toire Is ;lic most extensive OF the
''bari's" tragedies and comedies
uow available on the American
stage. IT has dono much 70 broaden
the appreciation Of the public for
tho Ake.old dramas.
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Buckram Frames
THANKS BROWN

pennlIess men who called on him
for assistance this winter.
As know that he did much 10
relieve those in distress, I think he
Is worthy OF this.
ROSA ADAMS Dimes.
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Editor Tho star;

Editor Tho Star;
/ think that this Is a very oppor.
time time to publicly thank Mayor
Brown for his charity and kind.
ness 70 many unemployed and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-07

REMEMBER, these are distinctly new, and the
assortment large, embracing every whim of brim,
effectively trimmed and gladstone of note in Spring
colors and garniture-such only Violet Tatum knew
how to impart.
Every one will be disposed Of Saturday because
heavy shipments of new pattern hats for our Main
Salon coming in rapidly and must be provided with
room for proper display
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Mexican Workers
Told Not To Fall
For Yankee Bunk
BY E. C. WOLFE,
Federated Press staff Correspond

r FEDERATED PreSS stan correspondent.
MEXICO CITY, April 13.-The OBJ
RECON government is taking energetic
steps to prevent the large annual exo-
dus of Mexican workers to the United
States. Unless the Mexican has a
good job assured him he will find it
very difficult to cross the border in
the future. Too many have been
fooled in the past. The regular mi
grafton begins about April, when the
agricultural fields, especially the beet
helds, are ready to receive them.
The labor contractors made fabu-
lous promises to the Mexicans that of
course were never carried out. The
Mexicans would come to the Ameri-
can job and find in place of the COM
Portable dwelling promised them
wretched huts with the most unsani-
tary conditions, wages much lower
than had been offered them, prices in
the company stores much higher, SO
that at the end of the season, when
the Mexican was fired, he had not
even enough money to go home with.
Labor organizers have been sent to the
border cities of Mexico, whore many
hundreds OF Mexican workers are
waiting to cross, TO tell the workers
what misery awaits them in the
United States, to disillusion them be
fore II is too late.
Ambassador Charles Warren, ap
pointed by President Coolidge to the
Mexican post, is a big exploiter OF
Mexican labor on his Michigan sugar
beet fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Ku Klux Khan On
Down Grade, Texas
Elections Reveal
10y The Federated Press)

DALLAS, Texas, April 13.-Election
returns from different Texas points
indicate that in many places the Ku
Klux Khan received severe defeats in
its attempt to elect school trustees
and municipal officials.
In San Antonio anti-Klan candi-
dates won by a decisive majority,
and in San Angelo the anti-Klan
faction celebrated victory. Beau
mont alone elected a Khan ticket. In
Houston the majority Of successful
candidates for the school board were
anti-Klan, while in Eel Paso all the
Khan candidates were beaten de-
cisively.
In Dallas, as reported previously,
all the Khan candidates for school
board were defeated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Russians Honor
Lenin By Sending
Food To Germans

MOSCOW, April 1s.-The workers
of Moscow have given special proof
of their proletarian solidarity with the
workers of Germany in the manner in
which they honored the memory Of
their beloved leader, Lenin.
Instead Of buying wreaths for his
grave, the workers of Sokolniki and
Samoskworetzky suburbs gave 365S3
gold roubles toward the purchase of
bread and flour for the starving Ger
mans.
In Gabrolet the workers labored
extra on Sunday and used their pay,
which amounted to 2S5.52 gold roubles
for the same purpose.
Numerous other workers in fact
cries made collections in memory Of
Lenin and then contributed the grand
totals toward the purchase of food
for the German workers.
The Russian workers felt that were
Lenin alive, he himself would approve
Of the manifestation of international
working-class solidarity expressed in
this manner by his followers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Mexico Ejecting
Shell Oil Man For
Aiding De la Huerta

MEXICO CITY, April 13.-The
Mexican government is taking ener-
getic steps to rid itself of all for
eigners who were active in aiding the
de la Huerta revolt. Arthur Rod
dick, superintendent Of the
Ell Aguila Co. eagle Ola Shell
concern), was given ten days to clear
out Now it is discovered that Ra-
mon Sierra Pando, Spaniard, ac-
lively aided the revolutionary forces.
He will be deported.
Thru a fairly we'll developed spy
system the government had discov-
cred that Eugene T. Bailey, British
subject, and John de Kay (the ia
nous one who bought arms and am
munition for the bloody Victoriano
Huerta) were implicated in plot
to furnish de la Huerta with arms to
be bought from the British firm Hus-
band Smelling Co. Documents found
on Bailey prove Enthusiastically HIS
aid to the rebel forces. He was ar
rested in Laredo and is now in a mill
tary prison. He will probably be de-
ported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Gassed Vet Dies In
Jail While Wealthy
Criminal Is Freed
BY MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD


(staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-When
John Weller, a rich man serving time
for embezzling $4,000 from the bank
of which he had been cashier, lay dy-
ing in prison, the prison board by tele-
graphic vote set him free to die with
out shame in his own home.
Allan Macdonald, penniless war
veteran, gassed and wounded in
France and suffering from incipient
tuberculosis in consequence, has died
at San Quentin prison from hem
orrhages following appendicitis,
traced by his physician to his war
wounds.
For weeks MacDonald's mother had
been trying to have his sentence com
muted so that he might die at home
with her, free man. The judge who
sentenced him had written to the gov
ernor asking for his release. But
MacDonald's family was not rich The
boy died in the prison hospital.
Macdonald was convicted with
three others of an assault case. But
it is claimed that his war experience
changed his way of living and
brought him from student in an east
ern university to bartender in boot
leg saloon.
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his bond and is now a fugitive from
what is termed justice down here.
Murder Trials Again.
In 1923 Blizzard was tried again in
Greenbriar county-this time for muir
der The result was ten for acquittal
and two for conviction Blizzard is
free with the murder indictment still
pending. In the same year District
President Keeney was scheduled for
trial in Jefferson county before Judge
Woods who heard the first trials at
Charles Town. The trial never came
up. Things went wrong and the oper-
ators moved to quash.
In March, 1924, Keeney was tried in
Fayette county, hotbed of non-union-
ism. After five weeks the miners
president was acquitted. He was tried
for murder, having, according to the
indictment, been an accomplish in
the killing of John Gore, a deputy
sheriff (mine guard who was killed
in the fighting on Blair mountain.
Fred Mooney is charged with having
assisted Mooney and hundreds of
other miners remain to be tried.
Last year under a separate indict-
ment in Logan county, the seat OF
war, Edward Combs, a union coaldig-
ger, was tried for murder in connec-
ton with the armed march altho
he was not named in the blanket in
dictments that covered all other min
ers involved in the trouble. All at
tempts to get change of venue for
Combs failed and he pleaded guilty
to save his neck. He was given a
life sentence at Moundsville. Combs
refused to turn states evidence for
his liberty and was brought in chains
to testify at Keeney's trial. He told
on the witness stand at Keeney's
trial, that he pleaded guilty because
he knew he would have been hanged
otherwise.
Preacher-Spy Not a Negro.
The Reverend Wil6urn and his son
went over to the state As hours after
the. pententiary doors closed on them
They both testified against Keeney
and have been given their freedom al
tho no pardon or communication Of
sentence has been granted. Old Viii
burn is conducting revival meetings
now in Boone county. Colored unior
miners here want to correct an er
roneous report that Wilburn is &
Negro. He is a Baptist preacher ant
decidedly white.
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march. One of them has been
tried twice on two different in
dictments-treason and murder.
Two have been acquitted and
four convicted.
Armed March of 1921.
The trouble occurred in August,
1921, when thousands Of miners and
sympathizers, armed themselves and
marched on Mcdowell, Logan and
Mingo counties. This march was brot
about after union miners had been
killed by Wholesale in these counties
by the Baldwin-Felts detectives and
other private gunner that are still
maintained there by the operators for
that specific purpose An industrial
dispute was turning into civil war.
The uprising was ended after several
days fighting in the mountains The
United States regular army disarmed
the union men. The coal barons' pri-
vate army remains.
Bosses Financed Persecution.
In 1922 a persecution almost pecu-
liar to West Virginia was begun. The
cry was, in the contemplation of the
law, supposed to have been commit
ted against the state. Treason was
the charge in many indictments. But
the state attorney general has never
figured in the prosecution. 1t has
been directed and financed openly and
without apology by the, coal opera
tors. Atty. Gen. E. T. England is
opposed to the mine guard system
and appeared in court as witness
for the miners. No one on the oper-
ators' side of the battle has been in
dicted.
On the other hand several hundred
union miners were bounded down and
arrested.
Where John Brown Died.
The first armed march trial was
held in Jefferson county at Charles
Town. John Brown was tried for
treason in the same building and
hanged in the courtyard in 1859. In
the 1922 treason trial VIM. Blizzard
miners union official, was tried and
acquitted Walter Allen, another
miner, was convicted. The Rev. Joe
Wilburn and his 1S-year-old son John
were convicted of murder and sen
fenced to the Moundsville peniten
tiary for II years. An appeal was per
mitted in the Allen case because OF
the seriousness of the treason con
Iyiction. Allen was permitted free
dom on $4,000 bail. He jumped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
Treat oeeupatIonaI Diseases.

NEW YORK. April 13.-what is
described as the first industrial
clinic on occupational diseases in the
United States is to be opened at Re-
construction Hospital here. State In
dustrial Commissioner Bernard l..
Shientag announces. A similar clinic
was opened some years ago in Milan,
Italy. The hospital, the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons, and the
New York department OF labor will
cooperate in this clinic in diagnosing
and treating occupational diseases.
The clinic will be open daily. 81