The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1913, Page 1

Ms sage pons. * pe ragged clothes in wnicn ne, on Sunday, attended three of Seattle’s big churches, Fred L. Boalt, posing as an ex-convict, is today seeking a job in Seattle. Will he land one? What is the attitude of society at large toward the man who has been in prison, and who has returned? Does he get his “chance”? Boalt will tell about his experiences in The Star tomorrow. FAIR AND TUESDAY, LIGHT, VARIABLE WINDS, MOSTLY he Seattle Sta the Unmarried Mother. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1913, “¥ : ONE CENT OW OUR CHURCHES TREAT A TRAMP | TONIGHT WESTERLY It’s June, the Merry Month of Weddings. But Before You Leap, Look at Page 4. Fy jp Tuesday's Star, Hamlin Gar- F fad Will Discuss the Lot of VOLUME NO. 81 18 HOME EDITION ON TKAINS AND NEWS RTANDS, be | FAMOUS NOVELIST (HERE SHE IS, SEATTLE’S TASKS JUSTICE FOR 1 BABES BORN IN SIN Hamlin Garland may shock The author | {EDITOR'S NOTE.—These articles by readers. But they are not meant to be written them from deep conviction, b experience. And Garland is not a foremost American novelists and playwrights, the 7 idols,” “The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop,” “Money Magic,” Mavanagh, Forest Ranger,” and many other successful works. * Garland before wrote for a newspaper. Now the presenta- ‘ger of a bil! In the Illinois legisiature to make the birth of a child in| feof the equivalent of a marriage ceremony has led him to write a | plea for the innocent child and helpless mother, and to permit he Star to print It exclusively. He touches a vital problem in Seattle gd every other city in the land. | a | | | | | By Hamlin Garland FAMOUS NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION) For many years I have held that there should| no such condition illegitimacy, and when re- ly there appeared in the Chicago papers the out- of a bill for legitimizing the children of unwed I was instantly and deeply concerned. I had expected to find any legislator of today brave) VERY FIRST JUNE BRIDE PHEW! AND THEY SAY 'TWILL BE WARMER TODAY With his usual conservation, the weather man that it was 77 deg In the sun yes terday at 4:45 p.m, The ther. mometer of our feelings regis tered 102 in the shade. What ever the official record of the weather app: us on the roof of the Hoge building, it was some warm, and a fine day for shirtsieeves and iced drinks. Yesterday was the warmest day this epring, but today promises to be warmer. The of ficial figure at 11 o'clock this morning was 68, with the mer. cury climbing, A year ago todzy the mercury reached 64, and a year ago yes terddy 65, . LET ALL HAVE i] LIVING WAGE, SAYSJIMHAM ! | | WASHINGTON, June 2.—One of | the most revolutionary proposals lever submitted to congress, whose for a national wage commission. A minimum wage for every worker FREDL. BOALT, DRESSED ASA DOWN-AND-OUTER, ATTEND 3 CHURCHES; TWO SPURN HIM By Fred L. Boalt. In the character of a homeless, penniless, jobless man, I went to church three times yesterday. I wanted to know what sort of welcome the big Seattle churches extend to down-and- outers. I attended— The Trinity Episcopal, Eighth and James. The Plymouth Congregational, Sixth and University. The First Presbyterian, Seventh and Spring. So far as the people I met knew, I might have come breakfastless to church. What is more important, I might have been suffering the pangs of that soul-hunger which only re- ligious comfort can satisfy. I shall set down here, in such simple and straightforward language as I can command, my experiences when I went, ragged and unshaven, to these three churches to claim my place in the Christian brotherhood. - I went first Tri was baptised and confi to I ned in the Episcopal church, and, be- cause I still have for it a cer- tain sentimental regard, which has lingered with me through long years of backsliding, I hoped it would extend to me ‘4 P operations, if the bill i ted a elcome as warm as th to put his name to such a bill, and my sym-| Into law, probably would effect ers cas Cpa Ys had went out at once (together with an offer of| Peerg bp incs0 Aloha af tg Sg Ditalith and até Mie bread aan bs nation is that nced by Sen. | I } bread an ad) to the Hon. Joseph Carter, the proposer of the) James Hamilton Lewis of filinols drank the wine which are the symbols of the Body and the Blood First, it is provided that the act of physical union ie the ultimate purpose of the| The ushers found seats for ing in the birth of a child shall constitute a true emg | , bs ‘ound seats fo "4 a oNow ir tatement writ a number ef people who en- that the child shall take the name of ton for the ‘United Pres) Sem tered: "with amie > Wien ea and ther and be his lawful heir. Second, that this! shall hold till dissolved by the court, and) that the mother shall, upon the declaration of | mame of the father of the child, become seized the rights and privileges of a wife. ily, such a bill provokes violent and derisive opposition, i economists than the male libertines. Lewis explained his bill BY JAMES HAMILTON LEW United States Senator From illinois) 1 wish to make tt assured that no | person shall be forced to live at a/ wage leas than that upon which the human being can exist. It is my purpose to have established some | forum in which the least citizen | wish to establish in the hearts of | were seated, the ushers found seats for themselves, and left me standing. After, perhaps, 10 minutes, I found a seat for myself—in one of the rear pews, where already sat a woman and a marched slowly to the chancel. / A anopart. itis, om its face, a bumanitactan bill, a wom mat-foal thal, sore a Ane child. } enw this is a woman's age , [resort to lawfbann: maintain The organ was playing, and ‘& child's bil!, but children are considered a more valuable asset jhis citizenship an rights, 1 the surplice choir entered and a radica) bill, but then radicalism ts the spirit of the age. The {all a confidence that there ts a c ich the promoters of this measure must meet ate simply | court to which they may go in During a prayer, late-comers ie: Is it right? Is it just? | peace, with assurance that they | tip-toed in. Then a hymn. © The discussion falls naturally Into three atvisions—first of all,| will obtain equity. In this way) TI r 1.2 d q ‘does it affect the child? And the answer to this is, to me, in-| strikes will be avoided, riots and | ne woman at the tar .en oui conclusive. It is a matter of simple justice to the child lawlessness provided agatnst, pa of the pew had been eyeing ‘ail men will admit, even the libertine will admit, that a babe Mi not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of its sire or dam. | should the child of self-sacrifictng love begin life disowned, |, an unwelcome burden to.the state or t rganized char his libertine progenitor goes gayly on his way of irresponsible | with other women? conditions of the maternity hospitals of our cities are but ody triotism inapired in citizens ana | peace be the uniform enjoyment: of all communities | ODD ITEMS me askance, but as we rose to sing the hymn she sidled over to me and gave me a prayer- book and hymnal, her finger marking the place in the latter —hymn number 311. rely known, their records are elusive—and yet enough has been| THE FIRST JUNE BRIDE, WITH HER PROSPECTIVE HUSBAND hae wegen ‘ by their heads to warrant the statement that the birth of it- ne verse of that beautiful ‘children is on the increase, and that farming them out is They were ready for her The busy scraping of pens lie pLIRTS IN HIS SLEEP hymn, familiar to me from ‘and their actual murder not unknown. when she arrived, each man Ceased abruptly, the auditor's | 5, vnitea Press Lansed Wire | childhood, plunged me for a Beeds no special investigation to understand that the tendency| an, ft in th employes gave each other a CHICAGO, June 2.-~"l can't help moment into a mood of un- Outlawed boys is to become criminals and the tendency of a woman of on In the knowing wink, every one’s face |i: judge Y filrt tn my sleep Et Christian cynicism. It goes: girls is to become prostitutes. How can we confidently beard recap bau aes | lighted up happily as she came |e." Pinth said when orralgned wae oe Ale oA t gos os the illegitimate child to grow to pure womanhood, to valtant| Knew she was going tc be tn i j host, : * ; there, aad they accordingly be- | Yes, a timid-looking fellow, [Charged with nodding and smiing the Life-giver, acts which we call immoral or criminal are, for the most | stirred themselves early this. | whose « » picked up won- Jing somnambullst was fined $5. | Thine is the quickening power & survivals of primitive conditions of the race, and retrogression gat vi the alarm cp | serials : hey left ahe ourt owes that gives increase; Dest of us is terribi . It Is natural, even for the sons rang nere wasn't a tardy ouse with a marriage license . oR a ’ hed int retinea pod ee tend homes to yield to the allur- one in the crowd safely tucked in his pocket, was, Nor uve LIGHT HRADEY | From Thee have flowed, as of sex, for it is the most fundamental need of the race, And she came, bright and | right behind her. MT VERNON. Til, June 2 Al from a pleasant river, ‘as hunger. it has kept the earth teeming with the mid- early in the morning, bright | The first June bride in Seat- {ior of lightning singed the hair off Our PLENTY, WEALTH, ‘we call men for a million years, and must continue to do so. and radiant ‘herself, smiling, | tle was a Vancouver girl, Mi the head of J. A. Van Winkle, a/ PROSPERITY and wonder is not that so many girls “fall,” but that so many rise | } pa happy, the queen of | ree yg ogee f - Arthur farmer, stripped him of bis clothes, PEACE.” Fag A A. James, 23, also of Vancouver, and left him unconscious. Two - temptations. How can we expect the foundiing, the branded walk the straight and narrow way alone? wa She was the first June bride. | the first June groom fre those who say that nothing can be done; that this evil existed and that it always must. This we deny. Beca ig has existed for a million years is no reason for its continued | office. of Canada, the resolution The government of the Dominion aete he was plowing again. | j hours later MANY ARE By United Prem LONDON, June 2.—More than a old as it is, need not persist for a moment longer than FIGHT FOR GOLD forth, has abolished the charge in| quarter of a million pleces of jew- For most of them, if I may judge from appearances, that prayer was answered. Plenty, wealth and prosperity were theirs, and I hope they find today decree. the Vancouver assay office, and the|elry are pawned in London every peace also In tomorrow's Star Mr. Garland will tell of our brutality and In- leffect will be to divert gold ship-|day, according to the police who Bucleha eae d " ‘foward “the unwed mother” under our present system.) {ments from Alaska and Canada to|have rigid supervision of the dut the down-and-outer? js | Vancouver from Seat “uncles,” | Very beautiful was the [ —_—. | | ees sb ennden re : 7 5 SNDED Service. It was like a reminis- The Seattle Commercial club to ie =a FRED L, BOALT, {N THE GARB IN WHICH HE ATTENDED s ini ALL MILITIA WHEN eres! ecco 0? dis OPERATION IS FATAL] Ho's rie DENTIST cHuncy $BetuRDay cen ot Sue bashesd Mee ltreasury at Washington, and to| PORTLAND, June 2.—Geo. F.| WOODMOUNT, Conn., June 2 solemn and satisfying to well-ordered lives. Sternly did Dr. Gowen enunciate the Ten Com- senators and representatives in| Robertson, department manager of| Robert Mattoon declared in remov-| mandments, that we should not steal, or covet, or bear false witness. I wondered how /SHERIFF WON’T ACT | con; Prats Leseed Wire, jwith the assistance of Constable| DALLES, Or., June 2—With | Harper, who had sworn in as dep-| and 11 militiamen here | uties Rev. Conrad Owen, Rev. How.) charge of one-eighth of one per cent, operation for appendicitis at be abolished in the Seattle assay) age of 47. the cial agents had been here for a week gathering evidence. After the raid the prisoners, 32 were token to , by his special agents Sun- Ry, in which 33 arrests were made, E GMs town is practically under mar-| law ry. women and one man The governor brought the sol- the county jail, but the sheriff re- tat here after Sheriff Chrisman | fused to admit them. Gov. W' EST - © ' to accept the prisoners was then notified, and the officer es in the raid. He says they stood guard over the prisoners un If You Shave, This Will Interest You lower jaw MICE USE STAMPS. inspectors fafled to trace $75 worth | jof stamps missing from the Yonkers | postoffice. Workmen tearing out a| wall found mice had built nests of| | them. | [CASE IS DISMISSED By! 1 v COLUMBUS, O., June 2. gress from this state coples of | the Plake-McFall Paper Co., prom{-|ing the hook from the mouth of a : ‘ é : a resolution adopted by the clab|nent in lodge circles and civic af-|black fish he discovered the fish;|Many of those well-dressed, normal folks had ever been tempted to steal. And earnest Saturday, asking that the assay fairs, is dead today following an|had a gold crowned tooth on its|was Our sung resp. nse “Lord, have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law.” But I—I didn’t “belong,” somehow. the will of Gov. W: ard McConnell, Rev. D. E Rmerick are a ail oe CA eiaes ‘Tadaed’ ‘Wire The one act of kindness to me sprang, not from the Christian spirit of Trinity, but a raid of the restricted|/and Rev. M. J. Purdue, The spe- NEW YORK, June 2.—Postoffice | from the Christian spirit of one woman who felt sorry for me. A few heads were turned, a few glances of pity and wonder were directed at me, as I left the pew and stole away. * * © &© 8 &% as! much the same as at Trinity. and a leaflet. But no one offered At the Plymouth Congregational my welcome was, A man‘at the door gave me a pleasant “Good morning to find me a to shake hands with 5. ¢ seat oe ere as long as he) til sii Li Menge rong et 1 : veg tak ih ae a a I stood for some miautes in the rear of the church, nece 4 er a conference: jov. We than untangle the intricate legal A ver : 7 The raid was made by Sunday, the sheriff acquiesced |f The Seattle Star has made arrangements questions involved in a judgment Finally a man with a pointed beard rose with others to pass the collection plates. I Tom Ka lle whereby it is able to offer a fine Burham safety razor outfit, FREE with each yearly subscription at the regular price of $3.25. and the women and man are In jail,| |awaiting further developments. James F eorge Ye DID YOU NOTICE !T, method of shaving. This outfit which The Star offers is complete, consisting of the razor itself, seven guaranteed blades, a_nickel-handled shaving brush, a Colgate shaving sstjck, all packed in a neat and serviceable leatherette case. . Band music was one of the big attractions at each ||} Y The cars were crowded People had to stand all the} /)"4Y out. But they bore the inconvenience of congestion Patiently for the sake of getting that delightful mixture of pen air, surf, verdant earth, sunshine, and band music. Merely emphasizes what The Star has been trying to upon the park board and the council for two sea- ms, THAT THERE OUGHT TO BE BAND MUSIC 3 ON SUNDAYS, AT LEAST, IN EACH OF THE BIG we |PARKS IN SEATTLE L lore long, the council will be making up its budget for year. It should contain a specific appropriation for band music, The people are entitled to it. And remember, with each yearly subscrip- tion at the regular price of $3.25, you get this fine outfit absolutely free. See the large dis- play ad on page 2 in today’s Star, which gives further details of this generous offer. |for $1.49, common pleas Judge Dil-| lon told the ltigants he would write his check for the amount and dismiss the case. HERE'S A “SISSY pnt home to bis} m., after a quar jrel with his wife. | |REVERSE VERDICT AGAINST EDITOR JEFFERSON CI Mo., June 2. —Col, Wm, R. Nelson, publisher of the Kansas City Star, was by an} opinion of the state supreme court released today from contempt of Judge Guthrie of Kansas City on} the ground that Guthrie, who tried} | Nelson, had prepared his — verdict that Nelson was guilty on the night | before the trial. Cain admitted he mother at 2:30 a. Hyatt-Fowella Sehool, 4th the reputation of being a thoroughly high class achool. Not the largest in the elty 4 but unquestionably the best.—Adve. 4 Pine, has Jas the ground floor took his seat. When he returned, and found me in his seat, Re shrugged his shoulders and took another. Down forward I saw a sailor, probably from Bremerton, a clean, athletic, ruddy man, A number of people exchanged nods with him. Evidently he had been there before and made friends. His welcome was warmer than mine. YOU COUNCILMEN ? Thousands of men have found the safety [H/™.jiitcgi"utse"s ““Slaay” was| ‘There were ushers in the vestibule when I went away. They did not speak to me, i Thous. razor to be the easiest, most convenient |the name tacked to Paul H. Me-| * 8 8 8 8 OF inds flocked to Aiki. beach and Woodland park |} Cain by Judge Pettit when Mc-| © without much hope, and no Nking for the task, T went on to the First Presbyterian, The ctroular vestibule was filled with people waiting for prayers to end and the doors to open. Hero, again, | was given a leaflet and a “Good-morning.” I avoided meeting a number of men 1 hap ~d to know, among them John Purcell, auctioneer and philanthropist For some minutes nobody spoke to me. Presentiy, however, a young man who, | imagined from hie appearance, was a machinist in his Sunday clothes, called my attention to the fact that the flap of my turndown collar (1 wore no tie) w kew. It was for artistic effect that | had purposely left that flap sticking out. He fixed It for me. | was afraid he would question me as to the state of my morals, but he did not. That ! wore no necktie, that my collar was torn and solled, that my chin was covered with stubble, that my derby was broken, that my coat was fastened with a ety pin, that my trousers were ragged and torn, and my shoes out at t and heel—these considerations did not weigh with this young Christian. That he was well dressed and 1 in rage did not matter. | like his brand of Christianity. I entered with the rest when the doors opened Already the church was full, the @allery as well I found a seat on a bench along the wall. Dr. Matthews, long and lank, and the choir in the loft above him, seemed a long way off. A man came to me and pressed a song book in my hand. “I'm glad to see you,” he whispered, Then, after a while, another came and said; “L can get you a better seat than this.” I told him I wished to stay near the door, He nodded understandingly. Down-and-outers, never sure of their welcomes, always prefe being near the door When | left, two men, whom | had not seen before, shook hands with me. come again. pene They sald they hoped I'd C) 1