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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
11
A Washington framed revenue bill amends the Second Liberty Bond Act to lift the debt limit from seven to seven and a half billion dollars. It appears designed to reduce current taxes while increasing public debt and interest payments.
In a mix of political notes and literary prose the piece notes McAdoo’s letter on railways to the government, calls out attempts to silence him, and criticizes tax and highway schemes as repayment to campaign supporters. It also recounts public notices on telephone service and other oddities before a long vignette on a moody wife.
A column notes Dr. Harry Marsh Warren’s Save a Life League has prevented 6000 personal crisis reports in five years yet none saved have donated to continue the work. The piece includes Geraldine Farrar’s remark on remarriage and a series of satirical juxtapositions about law and society.
MIS. CLARA SMITH of Anacortes WashWrites praising The Star for exposing brutality in Sedro-Woolley and Steilacoom insane asylums She urges sustained agitation to spur lawmakers and governor to action and improve conditions through public opinion.
Arridge Mann urges editors to adopt a common name for the Puget region replacing contentious titles. He argues two rival cities Tacoma and Seattle conflict, suggesting “Mount Puget” as a unifying, posterity-friendly label to boost regional fame from coast to coast.
A reader from Enumclaw criticizes Delvin and Auburn leaders over Japanese workers at mill camps, argues for white labor preference, recalls prohibition, and urges boycotting goods labeled by nonwhite labor, urging White River area self claim and local streets wake up.
The Star urges Gal vation Army and Volunteers of America to clothe poor schoolchildren. It notes retail stores with donated clothing bands selling items to the poor, a large Red Cross Jumble Shop stock of kids wear, and calls for free distribution under the motto Freely ye have received freely give.
A former employee notes that physicians at the state insane institutions show kindness but are hampered by understaffing. He describes attendants who mistreat patients and use untruthful tales to influence physicians and matrons, labeling some as tale bearers.
A subscriber recounts abusive behavior by nurses and attendants in a ward setting. The writer describes witnessing an attendant push a soapy cloth into a patient's mouth for missing the bath, and notes vain attempts to report the matter. The letter criticizes the matron as ignorant and expresses distrust and fear.
A reader from Chicago expresses frustration over alien workers being hired while Americans jobless. The writer, a returning soldier with a family, proposes a tax on aliens and equal employer taxation to compel naturalization or departure and to push employers to hire American citizens. The letter includes the author's address and calls for policy action.
A writer proposes a Seattle Way to aid the unemployed by forming a fund up to 100000 dollars to finance city beautification. The plan would hire workers to improve vacant lots by plowing, sowing grass, planting trees and flowers, and improving properties to raise local values. The scheme emphasizes communal effort and economic stimulation through street beautification.
H B Welch outlines a scheme to sell lots in West Seattle with profits above cost funding a general fund for the sick and needy. The plan could clean up derelict blocks, improve home surroundings, and attract investment, relying on cooperation from wealthy residents and across city sections.
Column recounts Dr William Barton critique of a wealthy spouses nagging over money and status. It describes a divorce after wealth widens gaps, two marriages, and calls nagging an unforgivable sin shared by both genders. It ends with a plea to curb nagging in domestic life.
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