The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 1

GTON, D. C Fg resolution by i by the people a has cause’ Latferty's mi i er, toc irst planned by 1 be Gyearold, } EDITION | Jan, 27.—The introduction in Congressman Lafferty of Oregon Pie the election of supreme court and all other fed- nd making all fedefal judges sub a profound sensation in official resolution was referred to the aiter a heated discussion, in which Joe »k part against the measure afferty provided only “what's a star SP answered the father, “is at shines all n to inal Im; ight and sleeps Ni “VOL. 13. invest $2,500,000 for Warehouses provernents if’ Seattle Will Put in Th agitation against unfit federal judges during the however, and the “pro-corporation decisions of the court convinced Lafferty ture should be provided also. The resolution which plans to take from the president the arbitrary power of naming judges and placing that power in the hands of the peo dle, follows: t year supreme and his advisers that the recall fea- RESOLUTION Titke—Proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States, making the federal judiciary ob Resolved, By the senate ONLY "ery p Acquire the Necessary 112 Acres of Tide former officers of the Bush Terminal Company, en the Brooklyn side of the New York harbor, eS the Seattle port commission that has al- though it waa first made definitely of the Municipal league, the matter 7 railway and steamship terminal, which ‘of land will be devoted to the erection of piers, yy switches and “loft” factory buildings, six to make a center for all shipping business, / tolled. another | t0 know,” he be-| fully ak foom B observed = Pr t cynically. he declared, | “The difference between a grill room and a cafe?” he said, thought- “Well, 1 don't know, | They're all saloons.” ot.| ‘The committee—or |had a cigar and left. It was late in the evening when part of it— i them enough (" Winds bore back the wandering to know, Raughtily, “is the & grill room ordinary saloon.” for his hat he Admitted, “is HM room?” Prof, King of the we ously at the + Ha reluctantly, “but the influence of to be admit coldly; “w ® grill room dif. % 4 Yolunteered re are no grill The grill room in the begin. in an open Dal t the grit left the hotel al sey €p Second ay, Fabel y Hawkins. Bil Banks kept them with » sald Doc. An air of quiet dignity sur- jrounded him. He was having trouble with his feet—but, he said, it was the wind that bothered him. | “I-I—I have found out,” he be- |6an, with difficulty, “what a grill |room is, Charley Zimmerman told | me.” “And who | is Charley Zimmer- asked Bill Banks, seornfully. Charley Zimmerman,” Doe said, “ie the best bartender in the v!- cinity, And he says to us—" “Us?” persiated the relentless Banks, “who are us?” “Why, friends,” Doc explained, Tom and Gerald—I think their ames were, Well, Charley says to jus, ‘A grill room is @ place where mission furniture tries hard to live down its name, where palma grow |the year around, and there is con- stant warfare between an elite quartet and a four-piece orchestra, |It's a place where they make the mi 3 s|menu cards twice as large to ac- aban-| commodate the prices, where beer, jordinary beer, coste—'” “There are no grill rooms,” broke jin Prof. Snitz, “strietly speakin Doc Hawkins looked pained. “But Charley Zimmerman,” he protested, “sald—” The committee on truth led him quietly away, used to be a member of the Anna Held company, That William J. Smith, managet Union Telegraph That Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit held the American league pennant three times each? ‘That there jam't an officer with the rank of general in the U. 8. army, the highest rank at present being that of major general? That there are two women run- ning ‘for office for the first time in Seattle, with the exception of school elections? That there are at present 1,806 Seattleites who carry socialist cards? That the English language con- tains about 600,000 words and that not one man in a thousand can use lover half of them? “Simply because a man is not an overwhelming success, and because his wife has greater capability for earning money, is no ground for di- vorce.” “1 don't see that it will benefit society to turn husbands loose on it who rush in to get married to chance acquaintances whom they meet at Wildwood park dancer “1f a couple live in the same town and the husband fails to support her, though earning |the remedy is not a divorce, but an action to compel him to support his wife.” In tt words Judge Dykeman yesterday afternoon put the brakes on the hurry-up-divorce-machine that has been diligently grinding out decrees in the past, Ont of 10 de fault. divoree cases, which came up yesterday, he denied three and took two under advisement. Frank Rodgers, a chauffeur, mot Gay Ray Rodgers for the firat time at a Wildwood park dance, and shortly afterward, on November 8, 1909, married her. burdens not hanging very heavily on Gay's shoulders, according to the husband's tale, Gay continued gaily on with the dance habit until she finally acquired a fondness for a certain “blondie.” “Well, if you like him better'than me,” Rodgers: testified as having counseled his spouse, “why don’t you go with: him?” Gay went, so the deserted hus- band asked for a divorce, The court, however, decided that any man who would marry on such short notice as Rodgers did, should not es DGE PUTS BRAKE ON fair salary,| Matrimonial | potive, and subject to recall and house of representatives of the United ea Babies. Marjorie Bonner and Her ste sa Craven Will Ue's leading progressives, will be one of the vice presidents at the big Cotterill meeting, to be held in| Arcade hall Tuesday night, and will probably also speak. The big down town meeting will launch the siey- oralty contest in earnest. Besides George F. Cotterill, Mra. E. P, Fick and two others will ad- dress the raliy. Craven was one of the first supporters of Senator Poin dexter, and is @ powerful cam- Thomas R. Horner, candidate for corporation counsel, will open head quarters at 454-56 New York block |® Monday, charge. hall Tuesday night with Hugo Kelley He will speak at Ravensa Hugh M. Cald- well, another candidate for corpor- |, ation counse}, has opened headquar- ters In the Mutual Life building, with Pat M. Tammany in charge, oe be turned loose s0 soon, The decree was dented No Divorce to Mabel. Mabel Erickson, who was married to Curtis Welch Erickson when she was 17, just three short years ago, complained that Curtis was “cold, isolate, cool and icy.” Erickson is @ clerk in a furnitare house, and while earning a fair ary, made it necessary for young IMrs. Erickson to find employment operator, so she testified, When she would ask him to support her, jshe said, he would reply that she was earning her own money, and le it go at that. Judge Dykeman denied the di vorce. “It seems incredible that a man could hold his position with a big firm and spend his nights gambling. If a couple get married and live in the same town, and no effort is made by the wife to make him support her, there is no right to have the nuptial ties untied, You {can bring an action to compel him to support you.” Wife the Money Maker. Blanche I. Baker inheri some property, and is running a hotel now. She had previously owned the postoffice news stand, where she employed her husband, C. F. Baker, Four years ago they separated, after living together for 19 years, He ia earning about $60 a month now, and fs taking care of their dangh ter, who Is 18. The mother is sup- porting the son, 19. Mrs. Baker tes- tified that the husband had not con- tributed to her support for 15 years, and that she was the money maker. “When people bring children into the world,” said Judge Dykeman, “they owe a certain duty to them. They ought not to put the sting and tinge of divorce on them, Simply - | only three months before the for the last two years as telephone | ty States of America, in congress aase: UTION FOR THE RECALL OF FEDERAL JUDGES INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS for the election by the people of all their federal judges. The mbled (two-thirds of each house con-| provid that the congress sball by law prescribe that suce ly sereing therein), that in liew of section 1 of article IIL. of the constitution | one-third of the membership of the supreme court shall be elected every. Of the United States, the following section be proposed as an amendment, | four years, until successors to the entire membership of said court shall which, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, be elected hall be valid to all intents and purposes asa part of the constitution | “The terms of all judges now in office, both of the supreme and In “Article iL, Section 1, The judicial power of the United States shall | ferlor courts, shall expire and terminate on the firat Monday in January, be Yosted in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts greks may from time to time ordain and establish, the ‘supreme and inferior courts, The president, by and with oint judges, either of the ancies, All judges, both the con-| following the election of their suc The judges, both of | the advice and consent of the senate, ma thelr offices for a term | supreme or inferior courts, to fill temperar, OTe. shall hold of 12 years each, and shall, at stated times, receive for thelr services a| of the supreme and inferior courts, shall be subject to recall, at any gen- eompensation which shall not be office. tle 27, 1912. , JANUARY one on diminished during their continuance In|eral election at which presidential electors shalj be chosen. Congress Successors to all judges now in office, hoth of the supreme and | inferior courts, shall be elected at the first general election at which prew-| {dential electors shal} be chosen after the adoption of this t INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ” SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY shall enact appropriate laws for carrying the provisions of this section into effect, and sball designate election districts for judges of the inferior HOME EDITION ment ; amen Sta ) i | fig => eee i init i Hil if sion, made in a police court, i the penitentiary Funny how the story told by a converted i sinner at the religious revival is supposed to |i} land him 4n heaven, while the same confes- [If lands bim in Hh AMAZING STORY ABOUT 30,000 STARVING MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN “If al] the schedules of the tariff were as well balanced as schedule K (wool) it would be the most remarkable document, next to the constitution of the United States, that the human mind has ever produced.” William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen company, gaid that at a banquet in Wash ington, attended by 35 standpat senators and representatives and two members of Taft's tariff board, February 1, 1911, Thirty thousand wool and cotton operatives, most of them Wood's employes, went on strike January, 12, 1912, because, they declared, they could not live and accept a cut in wages averaging "22 conts per week Their poverty was soon demonstrated by the fact that,500 of them were living on free soups 10 days after their strike. The average yearly wage of these wool workers ix around $500, and the cotton ratives, $416. Of the strikers 5,000 were children and 10,000 women. After an exhaustive investigation, recently, [da M. Tarbell proved the following of the tariff tax: (1) It had put woolen clothing out of reach of the working classes, who now wear shoddy or ‘cotton, (2) Woolen clothes cost nearly twice as much here as in England, ‘FOR DOCTOR: HAZARD (Special to The Star) PORT. ORCHARD, Wash., Jan. Five witnesses were called for morning in. the Hazzerd, with starving to death Claire Wil- Nameen, The fifth witness, Miss Sherman, who was employed nurse by Or. Hazzard, \s stil! stand. Passed Examination Weldon Young, who w it of the state board of fn 1910, testified a certifi- was isgned that year to Dr. fasting, On cross examination, it (wae shown that the board issued the certificate only upon an order ‘of the cotrt compelling It to do #0. We testified that Mrs. Hazzard ‘never submitted her dtploma as a | phy: to the board, or that she had ever passed a medical exam- imation in this state. {eentified Body Willlam’ Borthwick, deputy cor- ‘her, identified the body that he Le abe to Seattle as the same was lator — a Mins Margaret Conway, the Williamson family nurse, as that of Claire Wil Mamson. Borthwick’s testimony re- vealed that the purported body of Claire had been removed from Olal- 1a to Finney Creek, one and one- halt miles away, when he viewed W. H Onstead, owner of the Yaunch which carried the body from creek to Seattle, explained that it was removed from Olalla by) lwagon so that it would not inter- fere with bis schedule. T. Haglund, whose boy was a patient of Dr. Haxzard’s at the eo the Williamson sisters were ing thelr treatment in ‘Seattle, ified that they did not appear to im good health when they firet office: BAKKER KKRR RR * WEATHER FORECAST Occasions; rain tonight; ® janday, generally fair: mod & te southwest winds Ten & '® perature at noon, 47. * RAR KKRAKREREE ae * * DIVORCE MACHINE | because a man is not an overwhelm- Mz success, and his wife can pro- @uce more, there is no cause for dtyorce.” Freedom for Mrs. Allen. Henry H. C. Allen frankly told Eya Allen, a Kent girl, while he was eourting her, that he had been di- vorced three times. She knew him were married, but she took the chance. | Bhe told the court that she was forced to leave him because jeruelty before their baby, who is now 18 months old, was born. The j baby, 4 healthy, rosy-cheeked fel- low, smiled and played with the court officials while his mother was | testifying. “If T give you a divorce, do you think you would have sense enough not to act so rashly again?” Judge Dykeman inquired. Mrs. Allen had to join in the laughter, and gave her promise, She got the divorce, Case Under Advisement. Willfam Mackie, 53, took care of the two children while Maud Mackie, 34, worked to support the family. She said that he com- plained of not feeling well, but that he had merely been bitten by a “lnzy bug.” Judge.Dykeman took the case under advisement, and an effort will be made by Deputy Pros ecutor Gallagher to discover the de- tails of the marital troubles, “The mere fact that a man is get- ting old and decrepit and losing his earning power should not be held against him as a ground for di- vores,” Judge Dykeman said, Decrees Granted. Decrees were granted to Margaret Dilley from W. H, Dilley, to Lillian Conner from Thomas N. Conner, to Ida M. Syphers from Barl’ J. Syphers, to Lola F, Schelling from Poter J. Schelling. } *! of) (3) Wood's woot trust makes enormous profits, The Underwood-La Follette bill to revise schedule K was passed August 15, 1911. President Taft vetoed it the following day. (SPECIAL TO THE STAR.) LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 27.—In this wretched, strike paralyzed, militia garrisoned American city, seekers after truth can today find a weird reflex of the increased cost of living problem. Those who complain of higher prices of shoddy, of cotton where there should be wool, to protect human flesh from winter chill, should know all about Lawrence, because Lawrence is positive proof of the big double-jointed political lie of the year of Our Lord 1912, “THE LIE” Listen: You are familiar with the cheerful jargon of Big Busin and standpat polit- ical interests regarding the merits of a protective tariff. They have led you to believe that it’t all right for you to pay high prices for your wool and cotton clothes, because we are a very prosperous nation, live up to a high standard, and our manufacturers must be protected against the European employers of pauper labor. ‘ You should not kick at paying $1.50 a yard for serge, which retails at 78 cents in London If the wool trust didn’t have a protective tariff on serge, cheap English product would be sent here, and what, oh, what would become of the serge weavers of New England? THE SCENES IN LAWRENCE Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it Listen again: This article is being writtenat a window facing the main street of Lawrence, a city of 85,892 people, drawn from all parts of the world, mainly from Southern Europe. tes a Par curbs of the street are files of militia men in khaki, rifles with’ bayonets fixed. the distance drums are beating, fifes screeching, “Yankee. Doodle,” 15,000 citizens are marching, men are flaunting Betsy Ross flags. Women are lugging babies, wrapped in cotton shawls. Boys and girls by the hundreds are passing. Snow is up to their ankles, and they blow their fingers and shrug their shoulders, for it is a zero day, and all are poorly clad, though they are the people who weave the cloth that clothes the nation. > THE DOLLAR CONSPIRACY. There then is the other side of the dollar conspiracy. Here is the proof of the giganti¢ tariff law. As poor as the poorest of the ultimate consumers are these original producers, who are supposed to be protecttd by the robbery tariff. Thirty thousand of these people went on strike January, 12th, because they could not live and accept a cut of 22 cents per week. In addition to the free soup kitchen, the union is giv- ing hundreds of bags of coke to keep the penniless hundreds from freezing. So horrible was the tragedy wrought by the strike that a member of the legislature of this great and rich commonwealth asked the state to appropriate $10,000 to prevent deaths from starvation. These weavers have long suffered in a patient silence. Year by year the industrial and social coils have tightened about their necks. Most of them are unschooled and childish in their beliefs. Humanitarians have, however, exposed the condition of these people and there has been a political demand that they be given physical relief. It was brutal to work them to high speeding machines in rooms polluted by flying lint, steam and the smells of dye and hot oil. Fifty-six hours were too many for the underfed and poorly housed women and chil~ dren, if not men, So the legislature ordered a 54-hour week. g USE STATE LAW AS CLUB When the law became effective, the mill owners, headed by William M. Wood, president of the trust and real author of the wool tariff schedule “K,” reduced the weekly wages ac+ cordingly. ‘The average pay is about 11 cents per hour. “We cannot live on 22 cents a week less,” cried the maddened workers, «ow that the state’s relief was used as a club for further oppression. A few walked froin the mills, after smashing looms and precipitating a riot that called out the militia. Only 1,100 were unionists, but in a few days 30,000 were on strike closed. Living in a beautiful home within a few miles from this town is William M. Wood. who knows full well of the distress of these people. He sent word that he would not deal with union leaders, was sorry that his employes had so little faith in him, begged them to be “sensible” and go back to work, said he was responsible to the stockholders and that trade conditions did not warrant paying as much for 54 hours’ work as 56. : Wood is the same political gentleman who always pleads so eloquently before congress for “protection for our employes. It was he who thanked Taft for appointing a tariff board, It was his representative who tried to bribe the editor of Collier's Weekly with ad- vertising if Collier's would not support the La Follette bill to revise schedule “K” and, who sent a warning to the editor of a Boston paper that was attacking the big tariff not long ago that he would see to it that local advertisers did not patronize the paper if the tariff ate tacks did not cease. WHAT WOOL TRUST MAKES. Dudley M. Holman, the representative of Governor Fe in the strike struggle, points to Wood as the man mainly responsible for Lawrence conditions and says: “The amount | paid out in dividends by the American Woolen Co. in 1902 was $1,400,000, In 1911 it was |$2.800,000. ‘The capital in 1902 was $49,501,100, and in 1911 it was $60,000,000, The | increased 20 per cent. Dividends increased 100 per cent.” protected, kind reader.” vs ‘ and every mill “Wilson Against the Whole Field” SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.— Woodrow Wilson against the field, with the field using every political }maneuver and trick to stave off a popular preference at the May pri- mary, was the line-up here today at a meeting of what democratic or- ganization exists in California, the so-called state central committee. Theodore Bell, of the Harmon men, in the line-up with Hearst's Heutenant and Wilson opponents, chose to dominate the gathering to forbid state democrats to express presidential preferences on May 14, Bell urged that the presidential col- umn on the democratic ticket be ig- nored, and that all candidates for delegates to the national democratic convention should be listed in one column—« no-preference column, RRR * A debate between Will At. * E. Griffiths * * will take place in the auditori- * *& um of the Y. M. C. A. tonight * * at B o'clock, * Women to Rally epiadete for Registration A non-partisan women’s organiza- tion was formed yesterday for the purpose of getting the women out to register, On February 7 a big rally will be held in the Bon Marche building, one floor of which has been set apart for the women vot- ers, and automobiles will carry the fair ones to the Prefontaine build- ing. The rally will extend from 10 a.m, to 6 p.m. An orchestra will play, speeches will be made, and the registration clerks will be given some work to do, JURY HAS IT The fate of Frank Lombardo, charged with murder in the first de- gree for killing Frank Bressi on Septémber 30, will be in the hands of the jury in Judge Gay's court late this afternoon, Attorneys Todd and Martin finished their ar- guments to show self-defense at noon today, and Prosecutor Murphy will bring the argument to a close this afternoon, Lombardo was tried once’ before, RARE KEK KEKE KER w | but the jury failed to agree. | NO WAR (By United Press Leased Wire) ROME, Jan, 27.—Possibility of a clash between Italy and France was averted here this afternoon when the foreign office announced that the French vessel Tavignano, seized in Tripolitan waters, had been re- leased. If, was explained that the Italian authorities thonght the Tavignano carried contraband of war, but this was disproved when the vessel was searched, This action followed a demand from the French premier, Raymond Poincaire, who asked an immediate explanation for the Tavignano's seizure. RK KKK KKK * Do you want to help George * F. Cotterill, the progressive * candidate for mayor? Ring * up the Cotterill headquarters, * Main 5878, or Independent * i and Main 5904 * 8259, for men, and Independent 3183 for s * women, TORK KR