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. Phone ELiot 9230 Half-Hourly Service the excellence of FISH­ Ml, l|,| ,||| IN, IIII IIII IIII III, IIII IIII III, lilt Mil Mil MM MM MM MM MM MM " "MJ- Bus connection at Olympia * ER'S BLEND FLOUR Montesano, Aberdeen. Hoqm^u for bread making—and Shelton, Tenino, Centralia, nj it's equally good for lialis. Kelso, LongvieW, iv>; eakes, scons and pastry. mond, Castle- Hock and V;Uu., ver. Ask Your Grocer for Puget Sound Electric Railway Seattle Depot &s&* Yesler and Occidental Ave. BLEND Telephone Main 1055 BRAND FLOUR 4.—• •• • • .—..—.— AREYOUR PAPERS SAFE An Invitation i to Thieves / H'HWM .i.., .rillllllllllllt:••••,• •••;••••,. IM111I11I Ask yourself that ques­ To keep jewels and other val­ tion and then consider uables in your home is to practically invite thieves to II YOl HAVE NO RADIANT HEAT EIRE that our modem electric visit you and get them—and IS VOIR HOME Safe Deposit Equipment you can't blame Mr. Burglar offers you the last word if he accepts your invitation. If you don't want to be the in protection at a very victim of a "thief in the Light Your Gas Range Oven small cost. night" keep your valuables in one of our mob proof, thief A little heat makes the home comfortable these chilly morn­ proof, fireproof safe deposit ings and evenings. boxes—where they will be SEATTLE NATION accessible to you—but to you BANK _. alone. M__ Ask US about Radiant Heat. I 4. '—'- Peoples Savings Bank Exceptional 4% INTEREST on SAVINGS I Seattle Lighting Company Wc Straight Cigar 1308 FOURTH AVENUE (The Gas Company) MAIN 07u7 CORNER SECOND AVE. AND PIKE ST. I Independent 4. ..__ + 1 Wrapped in tin foil in P of five | The Puget Hotel Brewster's Stor down and balance I All Over Town PORT GAMBLE, WASH. $ in small monthly payments • 4, "THE ADMIRALTY" HOTEL 10 .J,. >„ >. MM MU •» '» "» " ' INVESTIGATE PORT LUDLOW, WASH. Any model of the "Hotpoint" Electric Range, The Mutual Life Insurance C: On Georgian Auto Circuit including the wonderful "Super-Automatic'' pany's New $10,000 PollO Both hotels owned and oper­ Oven Heat Control, may be secured on these W. H. SILLIMAN ated by Puget Mill Company. i Assistant Manager exceptional terms for a limited time only. A 459 STUART BUILDING_ Twenty-five miles from Seat­ phone call will bring you all information. 4. • tle; reached by first-class passen­ 4. ,_,„_. ger boats. Automobilists wel­ Phone East 0013 comed. Moderate rates. Seventh Ave. MAin |Bonney-Watson< & Olive St. 5000 Splendid rooms and board; good j FUNERAL DIRECTORS • automobile wharfage facilities. Crematorium and Colnmbai 1 HUNTING AND FISHING I 1702 BROADWAY „ „ „ „ ,^-„ ,| MM .. .Ml. Property of StatUe Public Libraiy THE TOWN CRIER VOL. XIX. NO. 34. SEATTLE, U. S. A., AUGUST 23, 1924 PRICE TEN CENTS regretfully. 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.