The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1913, Page 1

WAR WITH MEXICO Mt What Would It Mean to the People? in Lives and Money? What Would YOU Get Out of It? . series of copyrighted articles which have been written for The Star by an authority. for the study of Mexico and the Mexicans has been exceptional, is the author. affairs and the Mexican people in the towns and cities and countryside of Mexico itself; he understands the The first article will be printed in The Star tomorrow. Sy (QNOUUUUENNEUUULUNEEEUUUARUUEUEUUAHAEEEO UAHA ee | More Than 41,000 Circulation Every Day = beni EMM VOLUME 15 NO, 250, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, Is the Mexican a Coward? How Does He Fight? The SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS 1913, ne eee sony es opener = = Would the Conquest of Mexico Be Eas: What Would It Cost What Would the Mexican Common People Get Out of It? These questions will be answered in B. H. Canfield, newspaper editor and writer, whose opportunities Canfield lived for years on the Mexican border; he has observed Mexican peons and their ways; he knows the history of Mexico and its civilization. ane cancnanT 7] a) als | =| Eni = =EDITION: SMM ON TRAINS AND NEWS HANDS, ONE CENT YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG IDEA, LAFE County Commissioner M. L. Hamil* 9 asks for an investiga- tion b, a committee of citizens since he took the of hie acts office he now holds. And he says that if euch com mittee should find him guilty ef one crooked act, that he will immediately resign. You've got the wrong Lai what the law says is a criminal way, that the people haven't any right to complain, idea, You believe that so long as a public servant isn't crooked in You think that cism. That used to be the old fashioned notion of things, Lafe. But more. 80 long as you are “within the law” that you are immune to public criti- it isn’t so any Take the court house lighting deal, for example io far as the law ls concerned, Hamilton, you were perfectly within your legal rights to give the contract | to Jacob Furth, in preference | to the city light plant. | You were within the law Nobody charged that you took a bribe from Furth, or from Norwood Brockett, the com- pany's attorney. Or that you | Went out and clubbed Superin. } tendent Ross of t city plant. | There was no overt criminal Inmates | of the 'e Cooley F Farm, He irding the Fiocks of Sheep That Graze _Over its Broad Acres 42 REPORTED f : BEGIN FARE FIGHT DEAD IN MINE GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col., Dec. 16.—An explosion, in which heavy loss of Iife is feared, oc curred about noon today in the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Moun- .. at Newcastle, ten Reports received here said 42 men were at work when the ex- plosion ocourred. Persons stand- Ing on the surface, near the en- trance, were knocked down by tle was fired Tuesday whe; the under Trust league. A constitution was adopted commission man Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every month. The next meeting will be Jan. 6 at ll a.m fzation will be to bring about leg islation providing that all cold stor. age s be stamped at the time they are stored According to @ number of speak ers, eggs stored last April, and and plans suggested for a vigorous cam. paign against the Western Avenue The principal object of the organ | The opening gun in the warfare | which, at on the high cost of living in Seat morning, & mass meeting of women at rand opera honse organized the name of the Anti-Food the force of the explosion Mine Superintendent Charies Neerdink left the mine but a moment before the explosion He immediately organized a helmet crew and entered the workings. The rescuers re mained below but 30 minutes. Geverai bodies already have been found. it was believed ali In the mine were killed in- stantly. WOMEN ATTACK FOOD TRUST that time. cents 2 dozen as strictly fresh the top price. A plan to put sold the discussed. for 15 are now being sold and commanding consumer tn direct touch with the producer by means of the parcel post was also act_on your part. HO FOR THE ‘POP"!'PLAN RECALL OF (OH, GIRLS, MAKE IT WILL AID OUR MUSICAL TASTE At last we are going to “pop.” Pop” concerts are “popular” con- certs—popular music and popular prices—-and they have long been popular in the large Eastern cities The first “pop” concert ever given in Seattle will be held at the Met ropolitan theatre Sunday afternoon when Henry Allen, of New York will direct an orchestra of 40 pieces. Make Us Like It This will be followed by “pops” on the succeeding Sunday afternoons. And, if the !dea catches on, nent fixture in this city : The purpose of “pops” is to so| gently ease a liking for good munic | into us roughnecks that we won't | be bored Allen, who, in addition to operatic work, has conducted such orchestras as the People’s symphony of Al bany, N. Y., and L’Africaines Mili tary band of Denver, said today “My experience proves that noth ing {¢ more pleasurable than a Sun |day afternoon spent with friends | A motion for the appointment of |ligtening to the ‘music a committee, to be means by ahead with the work, carried MELBOURNE, Australia News was received of a outburst on Ambire New Hebrides, in which many lages were overwhelmed. and was feared the loas of natives | was heavy 16. canle composed of both producers and consumers, for | the purpose of devising ways ang the ‘¢ which to go effectively Dee vol island, SPRINGFIELD, Gov m., 16. Dec. to Joshua Tedford and Maurice En cht, both well-known men, one inder sentence and the other serv in me Jollet Tedford oliceman, was con victed in 1906 of spiriting a witness in a pending trial. He was sentenced to n rs in the Dunne today issued pardons| Pre MERCHANT IS GIVEN PARDON penitentiary and appealed me court sustained the verdict, but when its decision arrived Chicago a clerk pigeonholed it, leav- ing Tedford at large, on ball He got work as house detective for the Hnb, one of the biggest clothing stores in the West rose to the position of its manager had been smother. | How his e ed was but recently discovered. Within a few days, the city’s to the public service comminsion for a phys jcai valuation of the property the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co., within the city limits, will be filer The council Monda’ formal petition of by reao- The su-| | of Victor | | Herbert, Chaminade, DeKoven, Puc \ein!, Delibes, Saint Saens or any of other modern composers “I find that the Seattle orchestra |is composed of really excellent mu siclans, whom It will be a pleasure |to lead AFTER THE EXPENSES HAVE BEEN PAID, THE STAR WILL RECEIVE ALL THE RECEIPTS FROM THE FIRST CONCERT FOR THE LITTLE-CHIMNEY | ie CHRISTMAS. Gaby Yep, is coming Gaby Deslys, whose pretty his throne, will be with us in eat tle soon She will play here at the Moore} theatre In a musical three-act com edy entitled “The Little Parist and | enne HAVE WE HEARD |has been arrang: committee, who admit that ment Is necessary If the republican party 1s to continue to exist as a factor in national political affairs. The question of the reduction of the proportion of delegates from | Southern states was discussed by| the committee, and Chairman Hilles appointed a committee to consider But where you fell down, Wamilton, in that case and in your whole official career, wae In your conception of your duties. You felt that as long as you were within the law, it would be just dandy to give the con- tract to Furth, and make Brockett happy. Brockett, whom you | know well, is a friendly, | congenial sort of fellow. So why not do him a favor? | THE SAME OLD STORY AS IN THAT CREMATORY DEAL, LAFE, IGN’T IT? Your friend Noice was In the undertaking busine: Why shouldn't he contract for digging up | bodies of the paupers at the old poor farm? THE SAME OLD STORY AS _IN THE GEORGETOWN old and disappearing school of politicians. You have not the qualities of real service. That is why there is so much WATER CO. CONTRACT, ISN'T IT, LAFE? You were one of the organ- izers of that company, and the That is what ie the matter with you. And It is capable of doing as much harm, if not more, than actual criminal acts. present officers are warm Your attitude is one that per- sentiment against you, Hamil- js of yours, Why, then, mits waste and extravagance ton. That is why your -e shouldn't they get the benefit and |il-considered expenditure gestion” of an “investigation” of the county's business, instead of public moneys to benefit ridiculous. It sounds to us ‘ike of the city water plant, when friends and favorites of yours. melodramatic bunk. The Star does not say, and never has said, that you have Your attitude is the kind that allows political hangers-on to it ie necessary to let a contract for water for the county hoe pital? get jobs at county expense been criminally crooked. But Your mental, moral and when there are men more ef- your record as a public official ethical attitude toward the ficient and industrious to handle has been decidedly detrimental people is rotten and wrong, them. to the public welfare, just the Hamilton. u Your attitude is that of the same. TEDDY TO LEAD PARTY COMBINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.— The most significant feature of the dinner given the republi- can national committeemen last night by Chairman Charies OD. Hilles, was the activity of the friends of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Plans for the recall of Roosevelt two to the leadership of both the re publican and “pops” may become a perma- | vere openly discussed. progreasive parties The movement was led by former Governor Hadley of Missourl, Sen ators Cummins and jforah, and Ormsby McHarg, and there was every indication that it would re ceive much support, not alone from the eressive members of the from * reactionart some such move A special convention to change the ntation at national conven Ithout ratification by the various states Senator Borah led those opposed to such a@ plan ‘PARDONS FOR 92 GABY’S COMING) .., Last er today MPIA, Wash., Dec. 16 {ssued pardons, pa , and commutations of sen ces for 92 prisoners at Walla To ald the needy at Christinas Jan allstar vaudeville performance | at the Metropolitan d for Wednesday Gov | HIM BRING YOu | TO THAT DANCE! Girls, a word with you. We are giving a dance at the Dreamland hall tonight. It is in al most worthy cause. We are going to spend all the money we make to give the litte-chimney kids a mer Iry Christmas | Now, you want to go to our dan Your best fellers ought to take you. It will cost them only 50 cents, Rut mebby they are close- fisted be cheaper to ait on the sofy with you tonight and hold your hand. Don't stand for it! If they refuse | to take you to our dance, lead them Mebby they figure it would | i | | Or. Harris R. Cooley, Founder of the Cooley Farm The Star prints today a specially prepared article, with photographe, explaining the Cleveland, O, | correction farms, or, as they are more popularly known, “the farm colony.” firmly to the door, and tell them, It Is a farm somewhat similar to this that, In the opinion of The Star, Seattle need. ‘ more in sorrow than in anger, to Seattle Is big. It is growing. It is no longer a frontier city. Already it has its “slum” problem. beat it With the opening of the Panama canal, a la increase Im population is Inevitable. Certain of the nd cnt eile cing | newcomers are going to fall to e good.’ ickin accident, unemployment are going to add to a As stated, you can dance your ab ae which the city and county, even now, are unable to solve adequately. head off, if you want to. Some-| “farm colony” will solve it. thing tells us you will have a love-|sratt specia . giant candy canes Sou WHE Ret) CLEVELAND, ©, Dec. 16.—Cuyahoga county's infirmary, which is a ‘big part of The Dahlia Candy Co, 714 Pine|the world-famous Warrensville correction farms, typifies the progress of humanity. st, of which F. L. Hamtiton is man Five ye ago, the inmates of the city hospital were transplanted to a new life—to lager, has just made ee And we're |}y-oad fields and trees and wholesome, homey quarters, in lieu of the cramped, breathless aitanetb ade aces acres mock-home in the heat and noise of the city My, what a mountain of candy Ten miles out from the heart of Cleveland lie the Cooley farms, founded by Rev. Dr. we've got for that “littlechimney|Harris R. Cooley, whose dream of a spot where men and women might be reclaimed and “iy Christmas von : made comfortable in imprisonment and in impoverished old age, has come true. ‘e're getting together a lot of . : pr ie toys, too. But the feer haunts u On Christmas Day, the 670 inmates of the “farm colony,” as it is called in pref- that there may not be enough to go erence to “almshouse” or “infirmary,” will rejoice together and give thanks that ee vee can't aan ent one city at least has seen the light. thinking that poesibly some ans will bé disappointed They're just one, big, happy family, aiding each other, comforting each other—each | So, if you want us to cateh up on | zealously doing what he can to care for himself and aid in solving the city’s problem of | sleep. come through with money or toys you can, BRING THEM TO OUR STORE | ROOM AT 703 UNION 8T. SPOKANE, Dec. 16—U. 8. Mar |ahai W. A. Halteman sent his res lignation to Washington yesterday all the George Canfield of Spokane will, It) arma round a king's neck cost him| Walla, tobe effective about Chrint is | mas tim understood cessor here, be his suc P.-I. GIVES CHRISTMAS SHOW...’ } “Bunty Pulls the Strings” company who will teil, unny Seotch tales; the Boudini |Brothers, accordion players, f jcaring for its dependents | LAST YEAR, IT COST THE CITY 27 CENTS A DAY EACH FOR THE CARE |OF THE INMATES. “We all help, you see,” says Old Jimmy in his faltering, quavering voice. “And lit’s such a nice place for us old folks to end our pret | In the summer, the big family spreads out over the 1,200 acres in the infirmary division jand aids in the raising of garden truck of all sorts, planting and gathering | In the canning season, the women turn out long rows of “goodies” for the winter season. ‘They're all against laziness ’ Practically all the kitchen work, the serving of meals and care of beds is done by ine Few are unable to do anything to help, Most all are over. sixty x Over the hill from the infirmary is the correction farm, which has been substituted for the old workhouse Prisoners are’ put on the honor system, and work in the fields with- out urd |night at the Moore theatre by the|the Orpheum; the eight Berlin mad , Post-latelligencer caps from the Pantages; the Three's the FROM YOU YET?|' way Dr. Cooley, father of | “We have tried to forget the word ‘discipline’ in ministering to the needs of humanity,” the farms, expresses it. The follow! 1 Those who will participate are| Musketeers from the Empress, and We believe that men and women, whether they be convicts or poverty stricken, or | Pe hed Pehl sbi wenie Argiewlcz, violinist; Little |the University Glee club. infirm, are still worthy, as human beings, of the best that society can give them.” Il helo-ohtnmey Kidb, at Dresmiand jack. Dorner, the hit of the recent) Judge Kenneth bahia will The colony includes, besides the infirmary and workhouse, splendid administration panli: en Ourtetinas ‘day, "have oh “lancer F age te i ‘ine area program with a short ad: )idings and a tuberculosis sanitarium girls’ home and a city hospital are to be com- authorized the corpora been received up to noon today: || ; u -|pleted there tion council to make the neces || Previously acknowledged $620.70 e dakau a bc Oi " a . z 3 sary complaint |} J. Roy Owens 5.00 Searcely a week pass Wunatal 1 by séme entertainment for the infirmary inmates Councilman Griffiths, author || Marena B. Riley 2.00 ind the workhouse prisoner lovie’ shows, addresses by judges aad well known of the resolution, is confident || Cash 2.00 citizens, “recitals” by the local-talent band, and vaudeville acts given free by actors and that a revaluation of the com | TC. Alberson 1.00 This Coupon and 16c, when brought to The ate oft ions a} bd actresses help to pass time enjoyably on long evenings if pany's property in Seattle will Seventh Av., will entitle you to a 65c Pennant, size x38, ‘en. ‘s entitle the public to four-cent Total $530.70} nants will be sent by mall If Sc additional for each Pennant ls | Cleveland is reclaiming its human wreckage—and tenderly caring for its citizens whe “ith transfer privileg | | Inclosed. Montana, Wyoming and Kentucky Pennants out this week. are no longer able to care for themselvesd