The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1913, Page 1

id iT ed re ad eer a # aa ea? eh, Bee OS eS NE a REN ne An A SE RIES OORT Sa8 n- ss th $, fe 1S It has an aliat In the goodness of the world That's why we P nt a little fun For you to read when the day Is done 15, WHAT'S THE TROUBLE WITH SEATTLE ©AIR TONIGHT WITH WASH.,, TU IAY, SEPTEMBER 1913, BESS SS =e . Laugh! You'll Fee! Better " , THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. LIGHT FROST; WEDNESDAY FAIR; LIGHT EASTERLY WINDS. 7 hi NIN il MW 8 HONE Ite « It's 6 That's why T 000 horr HOME EDITION. { Hin 4¢ on NEWS STA® THAINS AND ONE. CENT. Is Yours Among Them? ST an the day is It fear a nor man nor devil on the leve tis truly sald, es is read Ih ? 5 teer trictly he Star, Let’s All Get Together and Find Out; Here, Read Star’s Plan By Fred L. Boalt. What's the matter with Seattle? Something is wrong—several things. Don’t let your civic patriotism blind you. A good town? Sure. the Pacific coast, if not in the world. The Seaport of Success? You bet. therefore the connecting link between the Occident and the Orient. less climate. the hills. Good country all around us too. Fertile valleys grow fruit and garden truck. grain and grazing cattle. And timber without end. —_— FOUR COUNCILMEN MESS UP DEAL FOR | COMMISSION PLAN Pass Resolution Authorizing Hes-| keth to Appoint Charter Framers; Constitution Provides Way. Messrs. Goddard, Marble, Bruskevith and Peirce, who a week ago BRING HIS BILL as Amendment to Cham- berlain Bill WILL COME UP DEC. 8 Proposes to Have Roll Call in Consideration of Bill on Merits. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— The Poindexter bill for the im- mediate opening of Alaska will were opposed to any cha in the city charter, Monday afternoon come up in the senate Decem- voted for a resolution presented by Counciiman Goddard, providing, der 8. thet Acting Mayor Hesketh should “immediately” appoint a charter) A unanimous consent agree. tommission of 15 for the purpose of revising the city cha Mesers. Griffiths, Wardall and Erickson opposed the resolution, but without resuit. Within a day of two Acting Mayor Hesketh will name his ap This commission wil! meet whenever it pleases and do whatever ht pleases. it will have no standing in law and will be no different than would Wch a commission appointed by the Chamber of Commerce, or the) Commercial Club, or Mique Fisher. ‘When it has concluded its work, if it ever does, it will present to) the city counci! suggestions for amendments to the present city charter. it won't be a new charter, although the amendments may propose) fedical changes. if the council! so desires, the people may then be given the oppor- tunity of saying at the polls whether or not they want their present charter so amended. Or, If the counci! in its wisdom eo ordains, the/ suggestions may be takend own to the city hail fire room and burned up. | Briefly, that is just what the action of the council last night means. | oecesve | ment has been reached to make the Chamberiain Alaska rail- road bill the unfinished busi- ness beginning on that date. Senator Poindexter will offer hie bill a@ an amendment in the mature of a substitute and the subject will be considered on its merite, f Senator Poindexter intends to have a roll call. WELL I DECLARE! Finest natural harbor on Western terminus of transcontinental railroads, and Waters swarm with fish. On the upland plains waving POINDEXTER T0 [Girls Free Them Plans to Offer Alaska Measure Now, here's the other plan—the plan suggested in the Griffiths | fesolution and supported by Griffiths, Erickson and Wardall, and me INCENTIVE FOR STORK. lng also the approval of Acting Mayor Hesketh, who, however, hasn't) CHICAGO—Twelye red high any vote while acting as the city’s chief exective. jchairs, captured itn a thieves ‘The state constitution provides that if a city of the first class desires to change its form of government, it must choose by pop- ular election a commission of freeholders to the number of 15. That this commission must then prepare a new charter. | rendezvous | Chicago polic jarrival of ba wil be given to Sonth on who report the That when the work is completed, the council must then sub- | @ eo mit the proposed new charter a th people. | FEMININE GALLUSES. Note that the constitution says these things MUST be done. CHICAC 3 ra, worn Of course, amendments to the charter may be made in the manner under hold up the Proposed by the Goddard resolution, and these amendments may cover rie of the new Most everything in the charter. But it's the wrong way to go about * men's wearing ap securing a new charter, when the state constitution specifically points n exhibition at the the right way. $ makers’ convention here ¢ IE ACTION OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL LAST NIGHT WAS TAKEN SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DE- LAYING THE ADOPTION OF A CHARTER PROVIDING A COMMIS. SION FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR SEATTLE. But it may fall short. When Mayor Cotterill returns, and Hesketh Is back in the council | s takes his seat after the iliness Griffith olution may again be sufficiency of votes to pass it legally constituted charter on shall prepare will be cted, as the people desire won't have anything to with a vote, and Councilman H from which he surance elect and will have the charter this comm Voted upon in due course and adopted or The council, or any other office hol Gay about it. ° And in the meantime the Goddard commission can keep on doing | y ‘Whatever it pleases. par pe That is, if Acting Mayor Hesketh ever makes the appointments. | fi reatened to « He said this morning he was going to make sure he was ing z Under absolute authority before naming the 15 freeholders. An opinion Will be asked from Corporation Counsel Bradfotd. | RE IMMIGRATION, HEBRON, = Ind McAlpin wrote ¢ for Mra. A R neresaman J. B. for an essay nt her fifty pounds by the ST. LOUIS | millionaire bahc trip to Paria solely for the wu of buying some sheets of concert muale ESCAPE HOLDUP Lambert, Ey EVERETT, DEAR. T WISH You woucD’ TAKE THIS VASE K TO JUNK & Co. AND EXCHANGE IT FoR A DARKER ONE. ~ You've ALWAYS GOT ang SOMETHING FoR BM ME TO GUG ALONS DOWN TOWN$ unsuccessful attempt by a lon Price. Northern Pacific, at 11 o'clock Mon. day night from Kent manded t who exhi as Price was coming In hia automobile. Com he highwayman, uple of ugly look w the throttle 1 kept {t so until he was well out of the danger zone of TO BANQUET SWAN Elaborate plane are being made a farewell banquet be red George D. Swan, formerly mbership secretary of the local awnociation, who, with his wife salle from here for Kobe, Japan where he will take up the position as general secretary to the Y Making Mone: If you aren't, don't tell every bod it just advertise your b for wale in our “BUSI NESS CHANCES" column, and | t «¢ fellow who Ja better | to your line buy ou | ou hen you can swing 4) something you know more | about 6 Main 9400 to ad ‘ 1 6 fix up the f ce din matiman Key to Alaska. Peer- Minerals in Souls by Going “Co-ordinating” in Bare Tootsies A good town—Seattle. A good country round it. But what's the matter with Seattle? For something is wrong. You can’t lay the blame on God or circumstance. The evil, then, must be in the hearts of men. No body politic ever suffered from just one disease. No community was ever abso- lutely healthy, either in economics or in morals. Seattle is sufferis ig from a complica- tion of diseases, and a council of experts is needed to diagnose them. You see the symptoms everywhere. Petty strife among petty men in the center of the stage. A st letariat groping for light and butting their heads against stone we | No need to review at length the symptoms of o vote for a $900,000 courthouse, and don’t get it. We with a riot. lies, and honest men go to jail for indulging in free are in contempt of court. Getting in contempt of c illen and angry pro- alls. ur various maladies. We are stampeded into voting bonds for the Harbor Island terminals, which are to make us and a group of Eastern “capitalists” rich beyond the dreams of avarice, only to discover that the Eastern “capitalists” are stone-broke, and the bonds are transferred to the |East waterway project. We give a Potlatch to advertise Seattle, and wind up A judge issues comic opera injunctions, delivering the while quaint home- speech. Hundreds more ourt is one of the best 1 things we do. A progressive representative tells congress at Washington that the colonel is an inciter of riots and a menace to society, and his standpat confrere tells | congress that the colonel is a maligned patriot. : The city council, which isn’t on speaking terms with itself, would, in the absence of the mayor, introduce the commission form of government. “Katy-did-and-Katy-didn’t” is the recognized method of debate. “You're a liar” is polite repartee. | ministration, cheap and efficient. We know that as well as he does. vote him into o % Our servant, the traction company, refuses to sell us tickets six-for-a- | quarter on the cars, and we fuss and fume. “If elected,” shouts the office-seeker, “I will give you a business-like ad- The tax rate is too high!” He hit the nail on the head that time. The tax rate is too high. And, because he generalizes plausibly, we And he does no better than his predecessor. Such conditions as these impede our growth. And they can be remedied, Hurrah! quickly and surely, if the honest and able men and women of Seattle will only | dishonest men and women. |gether and with tolerance for the views of others and in a spirit of friendliness |get down to brass tacks. In this, as in every other community of size, there are more honest than If all the honest men and women could get to- and sportsmanship discuss the problems that vex us, they would, The Star feels certain, speedily diagnose th diseases from which we suffer, and cure them. |man, on temperance? Wood, the prohibitionist, answering Morrison? | wrong with Seattle. And could J. E. Chilberg, * * * * * * How? The Star suggests a “What's the Matter With Seattle?” congress and quiz. How would you like to hear Professor J. Allen Smith, of the University, author of “Spirit of the American Government,” answer that question? Would it be worth your while listening to James E. Morrison, the liquor Would it be time well spent hearing Judge W. W. Perhaps Oliver E. Erickson, the single-taxer, thinks he knows what's Would Glen Hoover, the socialist, agree with Erickson? the banker, agree with either Erickson or Hoover? Possibly E. C. Cheasty, the merchant, progressive, head of the park board, Or Dr. M. A. Matthews. can answer the question. The Star has approached none of these men. lare able and of widely differing views. So far it only knows that they as The Star knows, they MISS GRACE O'’RYAN, A VERY PRETTY “CO-ORDINATOR” “Co-ordination” Is the thing, girls! frees one’s soul. And how does one co-ordinate? high board fence around one’s yard. This is a photograph of Miss O’Ryan, one of the prettiest # Chicago's co-ordinate club, The club was founded by Mrs. Ahrend) We would, then, It gives one the grace and beauty of the olden days, before bodies land souls were cramped by whalebone and shoe leather. | roses to one’s cheeks and the tan to much of the rest of one. It brings the And it Simplest thing In the world! One ® | coordinates with a bow and arrow, prancing around one’s Jawn in one’s bare feet, wearing a sort of Greek nightie. And, of course, one has @! mission form of government. members ° von Vilssingen, who fives in the fashionable North Side, and Is a dis- ciple of Ernest, Baron von Feuchtersiaben, an Austrian physician, who started the thing in Europe. Mrs. von Viissingen’s class meets at the home of Mrs. Turck.Baker, was at the corner of Grove and Maple sts. bandit to hold up| the wind tossing their gossamer garments, they slip back Into ancient n dispatcher for tho days and shoot arrows and caper and co-ordinate to their hearts’ con- tent. The Idea Is that by such untrammeled gamboling the body and soul | are brought Into complete unity, or “co-ordination,” and thus soul free: | dom is attained. But one has to be careful, else one gets stone bruises on one’s feet | and sunburn on one’s knees. There, in sunny seclusion, with SULZER ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 23.—Driven) to their las Sulzer impe: last night against the governor's contention that the state assembly acted unlawfully In starting pro- ceedings against him, the New York executive's lawyers today called in| question the sufficiency of the charges against Sulzer. Attorney H ick made the argu ment for th nse Neither he r nis assoctates, he gald, desired to shieldthe governor Hut,” he said, “our position is this: . Our rnment 1s one of laws, not of an T assembly and sachment court both are by the laws of this state 16 law says that a pub |e pfficial may be impeached only for wilful and corrupt misconduct | of his office.’ Ko FIGHTING matter with Seattle?” The names selected have been picked at random. others whose opinions are worth while. * * # 8 BH There are | are as eager as is The Star to find the true answer to the question, ““What’s the scores of Let’s get a hall somewhere and hold this congress and quiz. Let’s get the Let’s have a conflict of minds. best thinkers we can find. There could be speeches of, say, 20 minutes, each speech followed by a quiz | lextent it would be where money would be saved, where efficiency would period of equal length. We could, for example, get the vie be increased. ws of some one. who favors the com- He would tell exactly why and how and to what cheaper, or more efficient, or both, than the present form. in the quiz period, make him put his finger on the precise spot Then we could hear from the office-holder whom the commission govern- |ment would oust. where the other fellow is wrong. | Don’t you think that, a’ a little more light than now? there would be less misunderstanding? there would be less intolerance? hink that, when it was all over and digested, we Seattle’s best friends and who | minds, | an exchange of views, * And, finally, don’t you t would all have discovered who are We would give him his chance. Then we would quiz him, too. fter a congress such as suggested, we would have Don’t you think that, after such a conflict of Don’t you think that, after such Let him tell, if he can, its worst enemies? nt _ vane Sikeabinon -_ ————$____ _ _ \ee eR RAR RAK RAE * REFORMED DIVORCE * ! se 8 * LAW CUTS TRAFFIC * F ci a be speaks of the power of * ON LINES TO RENO * ‘ mpeachment as an ‘awful power" if . * OMAHA, Sept. 23.—Passen- * ero ea srk nsdneta ‘ | ‘The plant of the Paper & | % ger service to and from Reno, * raid ARE, O., Sept. 28.—Dean © co should #0 interpret | % Nev., has falen off almost one. & Newberry, of Monett hall, Ohio Co., located at 1507 , has falen o 0 all, Oh’ the law as to confine impeachable| Boxbeard Co zi tally dee |® half since the reformed di- * Wesleyan University, ordered two offense to willful and corrupt mis-| Eactlake av. was totally % vorce laws went into effect, ac- * girl students to go to thelr rooms conduct in office stroyed by fire this afternoon. —% cording to the figures of the * and sew up their new slit skirts. Judge Alton B. Parker, for the| it Is not knawn how the fire * railway lines running through’* The maids were © warned never prosecution, hopes to complete his | read * Nevada, * again to ap) n classes with the case by the end of the week. wit-| started. RaeeKKEAHRRKRAES hed app es nesses were arriving tn Albany to De gino dE ME fille (pee oallaiS aiid eke Sse kalun NE Acckecetet nas 2 aie a! Seek th block between Garfield and Ga- ———_—_—_ New York financiers, it 1s report "Oo ed, have swpplted Governor Sul ag PENNAN I COUPON, with ample funds to conduct his de NO. 75 fense. PLACING THE BLAME DELANCO, N, J.T U. here arg trying to decide whether a nagging wife caused aman to drink or whether a drinking man caused a woman to nag. ww. 6, T | It Is two stories high. | Wiliam Doherty, a prominent lo: leal timber man, appeared in good Ith when he sat down to the reakfast table in his home, 115 18th av., Monday morning A few moments later he succumbed to an Jattack of heart failure | nant is enclosed. Bring or mail to The Seattle Any ‘four coupons clipped from’ The Star, consecutively num- bered, when presented at The Star offige with 15 cents, will entitle you to a 65c Pennant. New York and Colorado Pennants now out, Pennants will be sent by mail If 5 cents additional for each Pen- Ave, near Union St Star, 1307 Seventh