The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-08
CAPPY KICKS
he Dseourses on Government Red Tape
Written By Peter Isns-Auhsr Coming saturday

" swivel chair until De rested uH
Ha Frlne. chen Do swung DIS less ta
mo top ~ Ms desk and T.shel ike
sn old aIr compressor with sand in
tho kalyra
'L1rd. what a country" Dc muir,
INJURED aulIb.y,
whats wrong with che country
lbs friend 2 Augustus lHiyIl af th1
WeTI Coast Trading company i5luir-
"a catering iltst lu time 90 hear Cap
paut
"uh. UNrD thing, Gus, Some
times I think that nobody SNcrp:
high Erado moron has q chance
for responsible bob In federal
employ
my dear CgTpy. uo really l.rha
class able man would consider ming
a Responsible sob on q federal salary
You ana I have 10 pay office hos
$500 "a year SET The government a1-
yprtisra siNu H1n.oe examinations
flr male Gtcn0saphrr az salaries
ranging from $500 20 en- 300 "a year
AN expert ba0khrfpvr Boa civil mo
earns go lay s1mgtmUH f25-and
last week a treasury department exc
pert al 81 day ana some HiiEhI gE.
peura allowance, called to expert our
books toF thq past flyg years, The gov
srnmrut % trying 90 collect some
g4sNop rKer- income tax from as
and wp'ro protesting
FINALLY I aakri Thorn 90 send up
an 1prH ana check lb6 books Il1
checked them 90 tho ul1 uf "a year
"a day SATURDAY being "a half day,
De made me up new iuc0mr tax rcs
ports Tor ail five Ytau. and showed
me whore not only asa I not owa tho
government amy rxCrs income ta1rs.
but on the contrary The government
owed mo Gl8ga10s 10 appears 1 had
erred on the aldo uf hoDeHiy leaned
"a biz backward Boa fact"
you Try % Ert that refund. my
son. and sec what happens. luull
Do an expert popkkttpsr yourself 10.
fuw yuu scr thru with the expert rE.
ports the commissioner Of internal
revenue imports from Missouri They
have HugersKperH that draw ns
much as Sc a day, aud are allowed
8 q day fur room ia a hotel when
they travel Gus ala you ever park
your wnrld.weary person In a 50
room IN a hotrIr'
mot l. / parked my chauffeur in
one once. when wo were motoring
South. ana he quit mo next day"
"uur travelling ultamgn are al
lowed nlc1 sunny rooms aud bath
10 the fr8t-Class hotels and when d
congressman travels on a juukrtiuE
trip. ha has 20 have the bridal suite
but tho poor devil who does tho real
work Tor the country b stul Twins
and travelling on the scale Of prices
that was IN effect when Abe Lincoln
waA splitting rails.
The letter carriers arc Htlii IN the
government service, and stu wcarinf
a uniform. but IA ike 10 rec tbs
color OF the hair 81 tho man whC
would hayn tho harIihood 10 pro
/ poae bonus Tor theml
SOLDIERS carried n pack for
from thrrr months 20 u year aud
cot shot HL Letter carriers
carry parl, for 30 years and get
cttssod al. DO they get a pension
for brolscn.down arches. Gusg'
Il think Hn, I'm not SURF. Cappy,
/ I've just been reading an account
~ an American out IN China wh'
married nm English giri two months
after w1 changed our law. which nov
stipulatns that a woman. marrying q
citizen of another country, does not
as formerly. automatically arqulri
I her husbands citizenship,
We'll. this American decided he't
come homo and exhibit his bride q
his father and mother and tho folks
and what happcns7
I'm San Francisco the immigration
authorities refused her ndmittance
because the quota u immigrants w
may accept from Great Britain thl
year has been used up They'd lt
her husband IN. but not her Artcl
[ they'd frightened aud worried her Il
death with their reverence for rCt
tape, tho secretary o. labor mid nht
might come In. provided she got on
as soon ns her visit was up whlcl
WIS precisely what she intended 4
do anyhow. Wouldn't you think {
federal employee had right 10 oxcr
/ cisn common sense in the first place
/ Gus7"
They beat my time, Cappy"
"Considcr what might have
happened II Jim Davis, our sec.
Rotary Of labor, hadn't been n
puddlcr In steel mill before he
got the job of guarding our gates.
He might have stood pat on the
law instead Of violating II nj his
discretion. and that bride would
have had to return 10 China.
[ Fortunately practically anythlnl
goes In China, but suppose she hat
been n F'rcnchwomun Anybody On
terinR a French port without n pass
port IS promptly cent back on III
steamer that brought them, and /
that bride had not taken the troubl
to got n passport 20 enter tho Unite
States, depending on her husband
citizenship 10 do the noedful, sh
wouldn't have any passport to pre-
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