The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1913, Page 1

~ More Than = A ‘000 | Circulation Every Day qa MMM 2" I VOLUME Staring and Mumbling--- All Day Long ID YOU ever visit an old-time “poor-farm”? If so, you remember the corridors—dark, flagged, with hideous calcimined walls. And you still remember the old men and women you saw sitting on the benches along the walls. They were so old! And they sat so still, with their heads on their breasts! And they stared so intently—at nothing! If you should visit the “poor-farm” again, you would see the same old men and women—if they haven't died in the meantime—sitting in the same position, on the same benches, with their heads on their breasts—star- ing at nothing and mumbling! It isn't a good way for one to end his days. It is a demonstrated fact that a man who is too long unemployed becomes unemployable. One soon loses the habit of industry. In a “poor-farm” pride starves to death, hope dies—only the body lives. By and by it dies, too, and nobody cares very much. cece stone- The Star puts it to vou, the average man, the average woman Vould you want to end your days in a * poor farm No chance? You are young, strong? Every in- nT t the Georgetown “poor-farm” was young once, ami many of them were strong. You are not a bum? Nor were they—once. No one was ever born a bum A hum is a won't-work, a can’t-work, an unemployable “No chance,” you say? Suppose that little business deal which you hope some day will make you rich, should fal Ithrough. Suppose your partner should dou- lle-cross you. Suppose you should have an accident or be taken sick. Suppose you should lose your job. A TURN OF THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE MIGHT PUT YOU SQUARELY UP AGAINST IT FOR TONIGHT’S LODGING, TOMORROW'S BREAKFAST. Do you want to go to the hopeless idleness, motionless, lips and staring, lack-lustre eyes, flagged corridor, until you die? eee It wouldn't be good for you to go to the “poor-farm.” And it would be expensive for us. For at the “poor+ farm” you would be a non-producer. And’ there is a better way—a way so much better that The Star believes that, when you know perfectly what that way is, you will be as anxious for a change is The Star At the Cleveland. ©., “poor-farm” and sit in sodden, with mumbling in a dark, stone- farm colony, described and pic- , it is positively no disgrace ) tured in The Star Tuesd. P) to be an inmate > Why? Because there is no charity in it. If you are out of luck, you go out to the farm and earn your keep There everybody works who can. And it is surprising to discover how few can find no useful em- ployment Why, even the half-wits have their simple chores. é : Which, then, would you rather do, if hard luck should come your way: Sit on a bench in idleness, or Go out into the open country, where there are garden patches and fields of grain. and orchards, and meadows where herds and flocks are grazing—and work? eeece What Cleveland has done, Seattle can do—and far more easily. The Star doesn’t care whether the city or the county undertakes this practical and necessary enterprise. City and county might enter into partnership. Or they might have farms adjoining. The city already has valuable and unused land in cultural acres. Don’t blink these facts: Seattle has an unemploy- ment problem, an indigent problem, and a crime prob- lem. And they are all more or less correlated. These problems are bound to grow as the city grows. The Star believes we should give these unemployed, land. The county could sell its Georgetown, and buy agri- gents and law-breakers a chance to become pro Ave, insofar as they are able, they should be c Hed to earn their keep at healthful employment We, for selfish as well as humanitarian reasons, should not permit them to become unemployables and a burden on societ THINK IT OVER 15, i | | FLAYS HAMILTON Commissioner Hamilton | IN WARM SPEECH familton jand Kn Knudsen for their vote giving | they ent of cassowary plumes and will | tron, Returned today. The matron’s hold them, pending a decision by |dougifnuts were responsible, the treasury department, ‘ wald, The SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS . 232. HI GILL MAY CET | Be IN RACE Considers Advisability of En- tering Contest for the Nom- ination for Mayor |CHANCE LOOKS GOOD Dopesters Say He and Winsor Would Split Bulk of Vote | Between Them what he enters the race 1, former mayor Unieas live one c considers a Hiram will himeelt become a candidate for mayor. If he does so, Judge Richard 8. Winsor, socialist, will also file In this event, and tn the further event that the list of mayoralty tn jeludes, In addition to Austin E Griffiths and D. Trenholme, | Judge W. H. Moore, J. C. Slater, A J. Goddard and Judge John B. Gor-| those well Informed {tn munte- | don {pal politics, pick Gtll and Winsor an the probable nominees at the primaries Can Count on 20,000 tf Gi runs, it means he can count on a definite 20.000 vot possibly a thousand or two more With an av total vote of 60 this would mean that the other can: didates would divide 40,000. The soctalist candidate, likely Judge Winsor, will poll 12,000 votes at leant Which would loave leas than 36. 000, this means that the other can fiths, Moore, Trenholme, Slater four candidates who are practically sure to run—and among G i] and Judge Gordon, if they also throw their bonnets in the ring. Even if only three of thone be come real contenders and the can didactes of the others dwindle {nto utter insignificance, there ts a plain proposition in mathematics that 30,000 divided into three is only 10,000, ‘BURLESON WILL DRAW OWN BILL | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—~The }dtt drawn by Senator James Hamth | ton Lewis, providing for govern. | ment ownership of telephones, did| hot meet with the entire approval | of the Wilson administration This much was made certain to- jday when house leaders admitted they contemplated introducing a Dill providing government owner ship of telephone and telegraph lines, framed at the direction of | Postmaster General Burleson. Willis Collins, a spindling, over. grown boy of 15 years, with a face as beardiess as a ys, Waa ar. Detectives Bianch! and a week ago today, on taken to police head in the course of a “third degree,” bullied and slugmed. There being nothing “on” the |boy, he was released an hour or so after bis arrest | Police Treat It as Joke | Young Collins and his mother lat er appealed to Chief of Police Ban nick, but got satisfaction. Oth er police offic! treated the mat ter as a joke Mother and son then turned to the juvenile court, whose In- quiries elicited from the police the illuminating explanation that Collins “must have done something” to merit the beat- ing he undoubtedly got | THE EXPLANATION OF- FERED BY BIANCH! AND rested by Majewski suspicion, quarters, and MAJEWSKI IS THAT COL- LINS WAS “SARCASTIC.” Finally the boy came to The Star. % The arrest occurred at 3 in the afternoon, on Third av., north of Yesler way, This section is de xertbed by the detectives as “a bad | part of town | Finds Russian Coins boy's mother, Mrs, Belle Col come to oe tag ling, and her four sons ha came in for a red-hot scorching at courthouse Mghting to the | unm 0nG oer vikima but four days the hands of H. C. Pigott, who| Puget Sound Traction, Light &/)¢fore, and had rented a house at spoke to the Central Labor Council | Power Co $20 Seventh av When they Wednesday night Pigott declared Hamilton uned| oa eager) At the same time, the Fremont) his office to give county busine Mneiian ‘abl Chapter of the Men’s Brotherhood to friends and favorites for the pur oe : churen passed res pose of maintaining a political ma:| ri ve colina na Neale . 6 t Hamilton | chine his pocket when, on « of his irrest, he passed a shop on Third lav. in the w which foreign PRIEST FORGER? AN ULTIMATUM [ro ie | As ia mother had told him he m > 1 ht have for his own the coins N YORK. Dec. 18.—The re-| CALUMET, Mich. Dec, 18—-| mis ave for his own the coins dete sion which exam-|Mine managers in the strike-bound | found | he house, he enter 4 the i witne: in Germany at the| Michigan copper country notified | shop and sold them t) thy plonl & quest of the defense was read Ir their men today that unless they | tor ed bgp as es os paren mis : y grabbed him he came ns Schmidt's trie report for work by tomorrow morn: | 6! ved pchaldt was Ing the importation of non-union | Struck by Detectives. ad po as a “mM men will be«in immediately to fil | atten Sovotn Yakima,” and started 1h tint nosy, pis to explain that he and his mother and brothers had moved to Seattle COLLECTOR’S JN BAD DOUGHNUTS BRING iin iii oF tiie plain clothes. men ~ SIX FUGITIVES BACK | jnterrupted with, “Shut up! Tell tt LO8 ANGELES, De In a LOS ANGELES, Dec, 18.—Six)to the captain’ : ssowary an ostrich t im not, boysg who eseaped from the juve Deputy Revenue Collecte itnam ntion home while another Arrived at polie headquarters ix in bad. He ha a consign: | distr§cted the attention of the ma-| Collins was taken to a room In the basement J don't know and which Majewski, which Bianchi | sald the boy know where | got ‘he pin in my Ue, {my iaother Slizabeth and Raft river, attle cars. WASH., [Must Peo Left Holding Bag? Once more we have the spectacle of a court coming to the relief of a public ser- vice corporation in a controversy with the people in which the people’s regularly con- stituted protector, the State Public Service Commission, has ruled that the people are right. Judge John R. Mitchell at Olympia yesterday granted the application of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. for a suspension of the order of the state board directing the sale of tickets upon Se- The order was granted in spite of the fact that, until the contrary is shown by evidence, the state commission must be assumed to be right. It came just one day before the traction company, under the order of the state board, would have been compelled to place tickets for sale upon its cars. By Judge Mitchell’s ruling, the state commission’s order is to be held in abey- ance until a hearing can be held on the merits of the case. It’s our old friend of the corporation, government by injunction, back again. Why, The Mitchell have permitted the order to go into effect pending this new hearing? MAY BE ASHORE | ABERDEEN, Dec 18—An unl dentified three-m: schooner gone ashore between 50 miles north of here, according to a report brought Lelips, and te: by Indians to Mo- elephoned here THURSDAY, ONE CENT ple Always D SEMBER 18, 1913 Star suggests, couldn’t Judge PRESENTS FROM EUROPE LOST THE FIGHT _—— | Attacked by two thugs last night, NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The first Nels Nelson, of the Satlors’ Union batch of holiday maf! from ame out worsted in the fight he arrived here today on the * put up and is loser $65. The ship St. Louis. There were 8,261 money, in gold pleces, was taken The Lusitania is 48 sacks. sacks, a record. _idue tomorrow with from his pocket during the strug gle He notified the police today 15-Year-Old Boy Is Bullied and Beaten by _ City Detectives in Cowardly Third Degree Because They Say He “Acted Suspiciously” to The Star man and amalle So you'r Yaklina boy 1 said | ed to make STRUCK M Willis One ‘9 a very big the other somewhat © one of those tough he larger man said n't tough, and it seem hin mad, FOR HE & IN THE MOUTH, |MAKING MY NOSE BLEED. The smi ler detective wanted to {didn't come home for supper. Knocked Against Wall | “‘We're going to let you go, the jolder man said. ‘We were trying to \give you a chance. You wouldn take it.’ “*Well,” 1 said, ‘you hadn't any right to hit me—not so hard, any way. I haven't done anything, anc 1 wasn't trying to get away “At that HE HIT ME WITH HIS FIST ON THE JAW, KNOCKING ME AGAINST THE WALL. “I gdess they must have found out |Inte: that the coins really did be jlong to me, and that I had a right to sell them. Anyway, they let me Ko When I was being booked, th: sergeant asked the detectives what |1 had done, and they said they had found me acting suspiciously in a bad vart of town,” The time is coming when man can come case, and mination yer So declared C. E Portland in 4 A poor te hi a judicial deter without employing a law inte court, st have S. Wood of ldress before the Seattle Bar association Wednesday night. Wood spoke for greater freedom from technicalities in the law and for greater interest among lawyers in the social and industrial welfare of the peopl Miss Rhea Whitehead, deputy prosecuting attorney, was elected a member of the ‘association, the first woman to be thus honored KILL BOOTLEGGER BONNER SPRINGS, Dec 18.—Rolla Harvey, an sik boot legger, was shot and killed today by a posse while resisting arrest Marshal Basling and Deputy Mar shal Weber were wounded in the Collins exchange of shots. Harvey sought and how much {t was worth. Isaid|'efuge in the city ball and was rid {t wasn't a dlamond, but glass, and|@ed with bullets by the posse pean aye nel Ait’ that! Which surrounded it made tue emalier man mad, too, ana HE HIT ME IN THE MOUTH, and PEKIN, Dec, 18.— Minister of Ka my nose began to bleed again, Then ucation Wan, Ta-Hsieh today he calied me a name. called on district offictals for sta { was pretty scared, 1 guess, and| tistics concerning the number of} crying, because they were talking children of school age in thetr about locking me up, and [ know | jurisdictions, He said It was the would be worried if 1I| first step of compulsory education, PARDON FOR ABE IT SOUNDS G00D ei adeeeemeateetmnetaeeenaemaenaaminatiaeemnaadtaaaaaaiaainmennaneesetenes naan 4 TTL LALLA LLL LLL Lo LLL NIGHT | EDITION 4 ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be KANE NOT IN ON GAG | -RULEPLOT The sensational eaide | facts! The principal bone of contention . si of in early clashes between the re relating to the removal Of pants and Pres. Kane was Pro President Kane from the uni-| fessor J. Allen Smith, of the depart versity, as revealed by The ment of political and social science, Star yesterday, came as a dis- | re ate Gov Monte attacked | * ; _ | Smith iis inaugural message jtinct surprise to Seattle pro- ang then named regents who were gressives generally exp to secure Smith's removal, in't do it In 1910 the regents notified Kane that they wanted to make a change, giving as the reason an alleged lack of harmony between Kane and the faculty A committee of the faculty wait ed on the regents and told them the charge was groundless, padi Kane and the faculty agreed fectly. THE REGENTS RAISED KANE'S SALARY AT THE OF THE YEAR INSTEAD OF rin. ING HIM. Then the objection in certain quarters to progressive theories being taught at the university be came so hot that the regents en- acted the famous gag rule. Many students, graduates, and even some of the faculty, thought at the time |that Kane was a party to this gag rule The reports made by Kane to the regents show differently. But he was overruled. This order prevented any candi- date seeking office, or any one sup- The fact that President Kane had not been a party to the reactionary plottings of the | board of regents, and that he was no doubt inclined to side with the student body in pro- testing against the acceptance of the Blethen chimes, indi- cate to what lengths he had gone in order to preserve dis- ‘cipline at the university. When the regents promulgat- ed their famous gag rule order and when they ordered the uni- versity to accept the “tainted” | gift, Kane buried his own per- sonal feelings in the matter, stood personal abuse and un- just criticism and attempted, | apparently in good faith, to car- ry out the regents’ instructions. Prior to the order issued by Gov | Lister that the meetings be open | |to the public, all sessions of the| regents have been behind closed | porting a candidate for office, to | doors speak on the university campus to | Kane fought his battles alone, the students and when he lost he went out like a good disciplinarian and carried out the regents’ orders It was this fact, his forceful car rying out of reactionary orders, that made many believe him to be a |parcy to the standpat gang that has \tried for years to squelch and gag |the university No Verbal Post Mortem “I have determined not to carry on a verbal post mortem over the order by the regents removing me from office,” said Kane, “but my reports to the voard of regents from time to time are matters of |record, and they tell a different story than that presented in the jetter of the board, explaining my fortunate t! 1 have copies of these ie reports ‘NOW BRAND NEW WAR IS STARTED. EL PASO, Dec. 18.—A brand new rebellion began in Mexico today. Generals Orozco and Salazar were its active leaders, but with them, ft) 1s said, were Felix Diaz and Emilio | Vasquez Gomez. The leaders as- serted, too, that Gen. Zapata was/| willing to join them, | This explains yesterday's break | between Generals Orozco and Sala- zar, and Gen. Mercado at Ojiniga Mercado remained loyal to Huerta. Being in a minority, Mercado lost | his command and may lose his life. Between them Orozco and Sal ‘zar control about 4,000 troops, for- |merly federals, well armed SHE ‘SAW LIFE,’ AND NOW SHE IS DYING | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 18.—An- | other petition asking Gov. Johnson to pardon Abe Ruef, serving a 14-| » in San Quentin for year senten bribery, was circulated .here today. } It read Florence Schenck We Jewish residents of San) After a career so rapid that Francisco hereby petition for the even Broadway had to breathe im pardon of Abrabam Ruef. We fully ps to keep up, Florence Schenck, admit his guilt, but we think, if the disowned daughter of Dr. Powe | pardoned, he will make a good hatan Schenck of Virginia, is be member of society lieved to be dying in the Alston sanitarium, New York. Miss Schenck is 24 years old, Her rapid career commenced when she was 17, and at that time she was called the “most beautiful girl in Virginia.” Simultaneously veral messen pattle organized Employes of the xer companies of ger companies 0 with her desire Wednesday as a union under the name of the Alaska Union to “see life” came the Alfred Van- Guards,” and will apply for a char- Gerbilt private car, Wayfarer, | to ter frem the American Federation Norfolk for the horse show. of Labor She afterwards sued Charles 8, The union.is in the nature of a Wilson, a trainer in the Vanderbilt stables, for breach of promise, BUY EM 5c TODAY semi-military organi Xo tickets will be on sale to Ralpo Pierce and Assistant Attor- eh the Grae ney General Stephen Carey repre on street cars, although the ord sented the people's interests be+ the public service commission WAS | fore Judge Mitchell, and James By to hay one into effect today Howe appeared for the company. The commission's order has been, The court found the city’s sugges suspended by a ruling made Wed-| tion of giving out checks to patrons nesdey by Judge John R, Mitchell) who are refused tickets, the differ Olympia, who will hear the ap-/ence to be refunded later in the event of a ruling favorable to the city, an impracticable one, The company tried hard to de lay che hearing on the merits of the case to January 14, but Pierce ob+ peal of the Puget Sound Traction, | Light & Power Co, on December 31 In the meantime, his prder is that the commissions ruling be stayed. The company s required to put upa nupersedey bond of $10,000. Corporation Counsel w ‘finally fi ea Dee cember 31. PENNANT COUPON This Coupon and 15c, when brought to The Star office, at 1307 Seventh Av., will entitle you to a 65c Pennant, size 15x35. Pen nants will be sent by mall if 5¢ additional for each Pennant ie inclosed. Montana, Wyoming and Kentucky Pennants out this week,