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Saturday Seattle lfcriw:*':i! P^rtmtai ner Seattle Saturday USA t New Home of HARPER-MEGGEE "''"'"" ****"""' "TrfTZ* 'JUL H t 1 TM 1 1 equipped electrical machine shop, this firm HOW nas tlie II J[ at 4th and Blanchard H °$ °$ finest Willard Battery Service Station in the West. %, VOL. XIX. NO. 34 AUGUST 23, 1924 Price 10 Gents Pag* Two THE TOWN CRIER —T +•• GRAND CENTRAL GARAGE SEATTLE-TACOMA Distributors of Day and Night Storage Distributors of OLYMPIA WINTUN Monthly Storage wAbt Interurban Division Ql V Wash Rack Ql V Trains leave both Seattle a{Jc 91 A Crank Case Service ^ I W, Tacoma 6, 7, 8 A.M. and FOURTH AVENUE AT COLUMBIA Phone Main 7231—7232 HALF HOUR to 6 P.M. Th*1 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11:25 P.M. , + _. .j. Branch line operates to j^n ton. Stage Division PACIFIC NORTHWEST Direct connection with lutt'. PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU urban at Tacoma Terming <: i for every purpose and A Sts., for -Olympia. Most housewives know 408 Marion Street DONALD C. STEWART, Mgr. 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As the dying artist in Masefield's and all other reasonable considerations dictate THE TOWN CRIER poem expresses it, "It will go on." that the charge shall be sufficient to provide a Official publication of the Seattle Fine Arts Society. "The eager faces glowered, red like coal; reasonable return upon the company's investment. Member of Washington State Press Association Published every Saturday They glowed, the great sea glowed, the sails, the And that is a matter that will be determined 408 Marion Street, Seattle, Wn. mast. with mathematical certainty through machinery Telephone Main 6302 'It will go on,' he cried aloud, and passed." wdiich exists for the purpose, including the de­ B. L. REBER Publisher partment of public works and the courts. While C. B. KATHBUN Editor —HERBERT H. GOWEN. W. H. SEIFERT Business Manager the matter is pending the company must charge Entered as second-class matter at the United States * * * postoffice at Seattle. the higher rates, under the obligation that it will EASTERN OFFICE: No. 209 Eagle Bldg., Brooklyn. More Symptoms refund the overcharge to its patrons if the lower New York. rates are finally established as the fair ones. This CHICAGO OFFICE: 58 Bast Washington Street. A week or two ago The Town Crier ventured SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance, $3.00; six the suggestion that the Bone Bill was to be con­ adequately safeguards the telephone users during months, $1.50; three months, $1.00; single copies, 10 cents. Foreign subscription (countries in Postal sidered chiefly as a proposed step upon the way the period while the controversy is still unsettled Union) $4.00 a year. For sale at news stands. and obviously is the only method by which the Payments should be made by Check, Draft, Postal toward complete State Socialism; that it was Order, payable to THE TOWN CRIER, or by Regis­ proposed and advocated by the same old group interests of the company can be safeguarded. If tered Letter. subscribers were to be permitted to pay only the For advertising rates address 408 Marion Street. that already has foisted sundry other delightful, Seattle. Inquiries within city limits of Seattle, made although somewhat expensive, absurdities upon lower rate and later the higher one should be by mail or by telephone to Main 6302, will be per­ established, there is no way that the company sonally responded to by a representative of THE us; that this group is unceasing in the furtherance TOWN CRIER when requested. of its program for taxing or plaguing all private could collect the difference. enterprise out of existence and placing all busi­ But with this rate question the only basis of ness in the hands of a host of public employes; dispute, and with the process of determining it Joseph Conrad that, in short, the Bone Bill is but the 1924 already under way. we have it almost submerged gesture in the direction of the public-ownership and lost to sight under a mass of superfluous and I he death of Joseph Conrad removes from millenium of countless political jobs and unre­ irrelevant law quarreling, some politically in­ the world of letters one who, as man and as stricted expenditures. spired and some fathered by journalistic enter­ writer, deserves much more notice than has A retrospective glance over the editorial in prise, doubtless with due regard to the circula­ hitherto been his portion, alas, that one must tion department. We have refusals to pay the add. posthumously. which these comments were made seems to com­ increased rates, and defiance of the company to In respect to the man, no one should tail to pel us to admit its inadequacy. Certain factors may have their influence. Perhaps the season, for remove phones, or rather extravagant talk about read the article contributed by "G. \Y." to the such refusal and defiance. We have from public New York Evening Post of a few days igo. these are the dog days, traditionally assigned to officials thinly camouflaged encouragement of pa­ There is a certain pathos inherent in every hu­ aberration of one kind or another. Perhaps that trons to adopt such an attitude. The air is man experience, in the felt disparity between this is a presidential year, assumed to be a silly what Conrad accomplished, ample as that ac­ season at best. Maybe the long dry spell has saturated with adjectives. And inevitably fol­ complishment was, and what he felt he had it in something to do with it. At any rate, it is much lows, as the night the day, this demand of the h''m still to do. No wonder his eyes glistened too circumscriptive to denote the Bone Bill as the mayor, the Commonwealth Club and some others a* he looked at the long row of his published 1924 number on the program of socialistic phan­ for the establishment of a municipal telephone novels and thought of his best work, namely, tasy. It is but one of them. system, and the fantastic proposal of a grand that which he would never bring to birth. Well * * * four-ringed spectacle of consolidated public util­ did he write: "Are not our lives too short for We have suit after suit against the Telephone ities. It's the same old story. The issue and the that full utterance which through all our stam­ Company, until the question of a proper rate, facts are obscured and buried under the bunk. mering is, of course, our only and abiding utter­ which is the only question legitimately involved We're led insidiously away from the subject. ance? I have given up expecting those last words- and will be easily decided when the facts are in­ The problem at issue is that of telephone rates.
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