The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1914, Page 1

sa More Than Paid Copies Daily mmm JUDGES LIKE STAR P CUT DIVORC All superior judges and many) lawyers approve The Star's sugges tion, made Saturday, of the em- ployment of a divorce investigator, For years.” said Judge Frater to- day, “I have fought the divorcee evil which in this state amounts to a scandal. 1 am the author of three bills designed to check It One passed the senate, but that is as far as I ever got “These bills, like all legislative 44,000 CHEER AT THIS, YE SEATTLE sitar LAW OF THE LAND BEFORE MIDSUMMER. Of thin I have not the slightest particle of doubt What has occurred is By John Redmond lutely confident th are of a Nationalist Leader in House of Commons | et phd de del Mele 1 would be uccess nationalists have The tint Por this ny part (Speotal Cable, Copyrighted, 114, to the Ne per Katerprise Association.) | again given proof of thelr ardent desire to unite Iriahmen of all races! naturally, | WATE THE IDEA OF APPLYING CC ERCION ¢ LONDON, Mareh 1 am glad to be able to send a message toland creeds Into one nat tlon of the Irish populatio Unfortunate however my fellow countrymen in America on thi Patrick's day. 1 am Every person aca catnted h the real facts In lreland knows that among our ts carried the day and our offer 1 especially glad to have the gr privilege of doing thin through the! pecause of reasons largely historical a g sl of religious suspicion fused, almost mult tae ha Correapondent, Mary Boyle O'Reilly) of o of the great-/ and distrust te to be found among our Protestant fellow countrymen THE RESULT WILL BE THAT THE BILL WILL PASS AS IT . slg y valle - eee 9 voha ete OR ity ; jin Ulater, Even the elaborate safeguards in the bill are not sufficient STANDS. reason for full Seen tiden ce, prey 4 y or with t 1¢ Irish cause have! to entirely allay their fear NO FURTHER CONCESSION OF ANY SORT WILL BE OF Poe race confidence and rejolcing this St. Patrick's day | The proposal the government makes t* to allow any county in| FERED BY THE GOVERNMENT OR TOLERATED BY THE IRISH being seduloualy chroulntea A a jet with a set-back, which is how | Ulster that Hikes, to v iteelf out of the operation of the home rule PARTY. being seduiousty ctroulated our enemies, is absurd, WITHIN THE| pil for #ix years, It ta inte to allow all men to see that by the One good will result fre hat has happened and that hj U KS THE HOME RULE BRILL WILL HAVE PASSED] wise, tolerant government carried on by the new Irish parliament, any divturbance in caused Ulate er the ction of thin offe through the house of commons for the third time in this parliament there will be no public opinior Kenglan yathetle with the df foara are groundiens. By thie proposal the nationailate of Ireland show how anxious they, FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; LIGHT SOUTH EASTERLY WINDS. By the operation of the parliament act that BILL WILL BE THE turbers (Siler _ THE ONLY PAPER IN ‘SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT _THE | NEWS VOLUME 16 NO. 18. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 17. 1914. ONE CENT °},,."* HE STAR tells today the remarkable story of Baby Vailie and Convict A915. It le a story that represents a condition in civiliza a ston which PUZZLES ALL THE WORLD! Convict A915 Is good for many more years of labor. Does that labor BELONG to the state of IIlinols or does it belong to Baby Valli? The pardon board of tilinois has puzzled and studied for five months, but has not decided the question. The same problem may come before thie etate, or any state of the Union, any day, For that reason The Star has joined with a large number of leading news papers in other parts of the country in an effort to secure from PUBLIC OPINION the correct answer. Do the services of Convict A915 belong, of right, to Baby Vallle or to the great state of Illinois? of thousands of your fellow citizens to decide the human question invotved in this remarkable case. WHICHEVER WAY YOU VOTE, WE PROMISE YOU THAT YOUR OPINION SHALL BE PRESENTED TO THE PUZZLED BOARD OF PARDONS OF ILLINOIS. We ask you to join hundreds LAN T0 A PUZZLING PROBLEM ---WHAT WILL aaacee padECe 323e€€ WE DO WITH BABY VALLIE’S DAD? | See the handsome baby boy! His name is— VALLIE. | | unhappy fam and hearts of many ties.” Judge Everett Smith also added his thorough approval to the idea “It is my opinion,” he said, “that we should have a court of domestic relations to look thoroughly {np the increasing number of divorcee cases which are coming up month , by month That’s all! No other name. Just VALLIE. In the course of the trial of Rev. Albert Dahistrom, the “Heliga™ Can't Handie ‘Em And around Vallie rage the arguments of a preacher, in the federal cc one day last week, a copy of The Star “The large percentage of default was handed to Judge Neterer and his at lied to a headline: pi great human problem—old, yet new every day. are to conciliate their Protestant brethren in the north PASTOR TELLS nd how abso worki tolerant, ful, y of home rule d JOHN REDMOND Ere TTT ETM NL LL AINS A STAND WHY HE JUST ‘TOOK’ WIVES ‘Heliga” Minister, in Jail, Informs The Star Marriage Ceremony Is the Commercializing of Love. “PASTOR WITH 32 WIVES ON TRIAL. t tivo . Ww divorce cases cannot be handled by Se trates ot eae Tawe|the prosecutor's office, so crowded There are two leading questions in the case of Baby| | The court scolded the newspapermen present, characterizing tim yers who live off the evil jhave the dockets become. The com} Valli headline as “very prejudicial : & Can Be Reconciled Pe uitveasea, aoa it to aifficels for pw up with out a name—a slur, & byword | casyr th Neltene Guat: coeseipaiy or Ether wiee,itie tet wean “Many divorce lawyers will tell|the prosecutor to probe carefully 4nd a disgrace among his companions | against the defendant.” cgi: : you that, when a man and wife! into the merits of the ca And | All of which was proper criticism, leaving The Star chastened and have reached the point of filing a/ Judge James T. Ronald believes Do the services of Vallie’s father belong to Baby Vallie) contrite. = oe that if Kansas City tried the plan of a divorcee investigator with suc it must be a good idea, and be worked out with profit in| cause | T petition, reconciliation ts imposal- ble. That is not true. We have in this country about 1,500 divorce suits a year, two-thirds of them be- ing default cases. or do they belong to a great state? For Vallie’s father a ict he's the father of Vallie are a good many Vallies 1s convict, and he’s a convict be- cess, In the United States, but this Valile “The prosecutor's office is sup-| “The increase in divorce [case is today an issue in a large community, All Southern Titnois te) posed to detail a deputy to Inquire leads to the conclusion that «reatly excited over the story of Vallie, Vallie's mamma and Vallte’s into default cases, but by reason| marriage on probation is ri father. j of the nature of his duties he can-| in practice in this stat } aries Kimzey i# # farmer's son in Sand Ridge township, Ilinots not possibly give the individual) Judge Ronald. Cora vert lived In the same farm & grown man case proper attention “t Sould favor a law requiring! and should have known better, but—t ine And the - | engaged couples to publish the mar-| mother was too young, although she looked older than her yeara, Good Idea, He Says riage bans for 30 days before the Charles was prosecuted and convicted in an outraged farming com- Pet idea of a divorce investl-|ceremony. A censorship of court-| munity, and he was given the limit—80 years In prison. gator is it. The mere fact/ship, in my opinion, would do much! So far, so good. Most men would applaud the severest sentence that ly had an official title Seaeed to eliminate subsequent | unhappt | for a grown man who Would take advantage of an tmmature girl But him entrance into the homes|ness and broken homes.” ja new angle has arisen, Vallie’s mother says that-——— Vallie neede a father! Valiie needs a name! Vaille soos the services of a father who will evapere bin and his HE" anb ESENMERE == 222: Vallie needs th labor of a man who will provide him with cordial There is a great movement {n Southern Iilinols for the pardon of ERED /} ST 1s, with food, clothing, an education. Charles Kimzey The movement was started by Cora Calvert herself. She wants Tt him to marry her and give Vallie a name and start a home and support En route north, thousands of wild| his family. She has petitioned the state pardon board. The pardon High school musicians tooted 2) ELSEWHERE i * Queen Anne high Parent-Teachers’ geese have caused great damage| board doesn't know what to do. It has discussed the question for five) association today. {to fall wheat crops in Eastern) months, but has arrived at no decision Wasbington. Kimzey has declared that he willing to take his medicine—com- | Alton Packard, cartoonist, lec- tures at Y. M. C. A. Friday ni Beattie Music Study club gathered at home of Mrs. A. L. Smith today. | There will be mo announcement by regional reserve bank commit- tee of cities selected until April 1 A big celebration of signing of plete his sentence. But his one hope in life, he says, is to make the) girl he wronged his wife and to give the best of his remaining years to her and their boy Today mother and child have no home. They live on the bounty | ship of Ole Oleson was progress ing. Would Mary Lundstrom marry Dashistrom, “white found guilty of and accused of preach love, hi Ole, and, if so, would they (the min- book filled with new: isters) get the job of marry clippings. The headlines in al- ing them? AND FINALLY, WAS OLE GOOD FOR A $2 FEE, OR A $5 ONE? most every instance are quite as “prejudicial” as that to which Judge Neterer took ex- I believe marriages should be ree ception. yeorded, just as 1 believe in govern- Perusal of the clippings reveals | ment and good order in all things. a spirit of hostility in the minds of | Put I do not believe in putting mare the news writers toward the “He-|"age on a business basis. 1 preacher. Dahistrom has heen | ‘I hold that you cannot measure various Tight and wrong by arbitrary rules. |For example: If a man.and woman, jhonorably loving each other, and— intending to be true to their mutual mate without ‘benefit pA es have no I do nos mean Ihelfeve in free Jove. — I mean tha’ must not judge. Much has been made of my = minder that Solomon had 700 and 300 concubines, and that did not say he had too many. “I have shown that 57 per cent of the children in Germany are born out of wedlock. im Germany, as in Scotland, it was the honored cus tom of other days for a man and a woman to announce to a neighbor |that thereafter they were man and rested many times, in parts of the country. Today Dahistrom was to come up for sentence. The Star this morn- ing visited Dahlstrom in his vas the county jail, and offered its tor-aa”expoxition of his doc’ trine. . “Every time I look through the) bars of my cell and through that window,” sald Dahistrom, “I see, in those windows across the signs announcing that ministe live there. “The signs ure intended to at- tract the attention of young men and women who have secured mar, ringe licenses at the court house Those ministers are only’ a little | but with all their hearts for! Interesting discussion at Humane society meeting, Fraser-Paterson | Signe bill at Portland Monday night of relatives. Without one thought of themseive “T tea room, | Herschel H. Jones, at the Nation-| their baby’s sake, K Uiitss tastuele ot earn ! e \. | y's sake, Kimzey and Cora pleaded together before the pardon 7 sgt ae nn ery Ven Mer dt Child Labor conference at New| board for Kimzey's release. They wrote frequently to one another, and They po Bar rato sage Ee | son and Ben son, 4! Orleans, said America was bebind| in allt ponde: ind pride in the child beam forth. have commercialized ne } inquest inte death of W, vo-| Russia in child labor laws Cora’s grandfather, ROSECUTED Kimzey, ‘han now taken hate's @ sacred sac- ! aymond B. Fosdick, f . e 0 ? N. He présente big petition to the “ ct macka @, killed by car, tomorrow ymon ‘osdick, former com- up the case for his PARDON. He présenfed a big petition to the par It is that which I have been ST. LOUIS, March 17.—Collape missioner of accounts of New York, don board Pastor | declined President Wilson's tender | Brother of T. R. Elwell, It certainly is a great problem—this problem of Vallie, the baby, nig he et the ‘commisslonership of {mmt j and Vallie’s mother and Vallie’s father, A 915 y for Americans. I have never |“"® Were still looking for corpess neso' gration of New Yor wees ever |; Hawai arb dance at advocated free love. 1 hav ely in the ruins of the burned Mis- Scatght i K uff is citisenship of Walter Would you set Convict A 915 free, so he could work for his baby? PORTLAND, March 17— | $8,000 and was discovered by |mercialism which inspires minis- structure's west wall “ Rennes, Raniaiet | Sordiet, Or do you think the state has a better right to his services? Shortly after his return here Lieut. Col. Gallagher. |ters and divorce lawyers, wet wall 0 Body of James Thompson, dead court-martialed for remarks about from headache, shipped to Port-\the American flag ajo aen pcs lume ue land King Christian of Denmark con-! A. commander of the Hard times dance and card party ferred the grand cross of by Lorraine chapter, 0. E. $., Broad-| brog on Andrew Carnegie. way hall, tonight. A charge of insanity probably French department Woman's|will be lodeed at Los Angeles Century club met today jagainst Mrs.- Ella Splawn-Miller Mercer and Warren Teachers’ ae O'Dell, who said she was Dorothy Danne department, received a from army officials at Seattle that a shortage had been dis covered in the quartermaster's department there. THE BABY THE STATE? sociations join in meeting | Arnold De iets: who:had ehares o Y rnold po Capt. Griffiths, who had charge North End Progressive club met | Hurricane, floods and fire have How YOU VoTRt of the funds, had been placed with Mrs. E. P. Movers this after:| caused lows of many lives and sev in detinue, pending an investi- noon. eral millions in province of Stavro jon. It is said the shorta Newsboys will be passengers on) pol, Russia if ¥6u think Baby Valli of Illinois te entitled to the services of Smounte to approximately Convict A 915, mark a cross over the baby's head. If you think the state is entitled to such services, mark the Illinois seal Sign your name and address launch on first exeur-: YM CA The foreign affairs committee of sion of year. the house has requested Secreta Card party for the benefit of Day Hryan to ta IS SHORT $8,000 DEPUTY HELPS LARRY. DUKE worse than the majority of mem-|Wife- That was enough.” bers of the cloth, fighting for more than 20 years. ing today upon a fo ‘| have never advocated polyg-| we, putt ree of Se h. | “t have lived in the homes of ee ee QUARTERS | ministers, eaten at their tables, Four badly injured men were ree et investiga shared their confidences. | have moved within a few minut after fficers from the | heard them wonder how the court-'the wall fell and 15 were missing. HELD IN As a result of nm conducted by ingpector-general oftee, Capt Griffiths is now held in his quar ters while his accounts are being investigate The disclosu es | se to men in the has been at this and a half. He has en ~ BURIED IN VACANT CITY LOT Detective Captain Charles Tennant and Coroner Mason started a personal investigation today of a new Seattle murder mystery, follow- Nursery Bon Marche today. Hague p in 1915. $ Quarante club meets tonight with| At Chicago, Mrs. Harriet L. Jan-|J NAME ing the discovery late yesterday afternoon of a man’s body buried in with Mrs. Wm. Anderson, 4158| ney, grandmother of 3-year-old Vir-! ‘ a lot at 28th av. S., and Juneau st. Alkt av ginia Ford, an heiress, and William ADDRESS Larry” Duke this morning/scene of the a nt ‘ the same | Parker Harris, 14, of 4817 44th av. S., and Cyril Pemberton, 15,3928 Parent-Teacher association, Ma H. Ford, her father, are fighting for (Mall this coupon to The Star office.) gained a point in his fight against night, testified t break in Duke's | Edmunds st., who were playing in the vicinity, stumbled over the toes dr school, entertainment y.| child's custody lowing 4 5 snanotetantes ehkibe ih coanes steering gear seemed to be an old| of the dead man's boots, which protruded slightly above the ground. ‘Miss Juliet O'Hearn addressed woman as kidnaper ec aw oe : : dak “aanih ad aninee a a OR ONE | They investigated and were frightened by the gruesome discovery, Woman's Educational elub today |” Earthquake in the province of tion with the ¢ nity ale tate is a eeraes ad show K Fei engine rgblendass ore Nag dp vps of the police points to murder. ‘: St. Patrick er alan¢ of Hond Jap fte ’ yreliminary e * ere | Farr last Octe rin an automobile vat juke was intoxicated ullet hole was found a ie base of the b Th of Bardell club st Pictniox hall'to- eesiaed 3 poe eu es CASHIER IN "TROUBLE a a f \é or c ee pani in the te y of Dep The ease of Harry Boswell, ac-/dently been dragged some distance and buried. hastily, vocordtea night On account of the absence of Sen. | - \ ee ommigsioner Adams, was! ity sheriff Herbert . cused of responsibility for th th| indications. It has probably been in the ground five months, Dr. Lillian Irwin spoke today be-| ator 0 the will not| VALDEZ, Al bound over erday on a charge The case is being heard in Judge of Beryl Bill, In an auto collision A gold tie pin, a double circlet of gold, and a piece of a letter with Sore Interlake Pavent/Peacha ool tolls until | Charles H. Eby, former casbler of |of having embezzled $7,500 of the |Giitian art last January, went to the jury at|the postmark, “Lindberg, Wash., October 13, 1913," wer Parent-Teacher asso- | vo e the only elation, Mw [the Blum & Co, bank of Cordo funds of the bank | Deputy be, who Was at the boon today | tangible clues found in the ees last night. <aei GOOD PEOPLE, MEET DIANA DILLPICKLES, WHO’LL PERF ORM DAILY IN STAR! INVESTIGATION a THIS 1s THE "MAR" THIS IS THS Fairy PRING © OF DREAMS, | THIS |S THE BUNCH OF BooBs AnD HIS \S AND HOMESPUN "PAR" THE LOVER A HIGH-STRUNG GOI HICKS THAT ALWAYS AROUND HER FIRES BY ns ‘ ‘ U SE LACK OF CULTU ESTEEMS IN SPITE OF HER [SIDE STICKS INSTEAD OF THE FAIRY PRINCE ILC PICKCES NHOSE LA ; . X : : "MAR" PUN . | OF DREAMS THE KIND OF A LOVER A TICKLES DIANA D. DILLPICKLES. AR" AND HOMESPUN “PAR Prep ae WHOSG Lack OF CULTURE TickcEes| COW ESTEEMS IN SPITE OF HER "MAR" AND E : ; miata D. HOME =SPUN “PAR” WHOSE LACK OF CULTURE Aroused to action by “persistent POPPER 4 -< | TICKLES DIANA De DILLPICKLES. Z> attacks and intimations of dishon- DILLPICKLES DILLPICKLES. F esty and trickery,” the King coun: CECIL om s€ / ty commissioners today passed a THE WELLKNOWN MONTAGUE boa THe is ay 2 resolution, asking that Judge €-SHOE a a Frater appoint an investigatin, HORS HOER CHARTERIS ie f NUTTE a k > SAMSON So body to look Into the affaire.of the ‘ / commissioners. . ne SERS yor Ne Judge Frater had not received (THis BALLY A the resolution at noon and no inti: < - AND CHES TID mation has been given as to the CHAP DOESN'T “3 “HAYS u. ° personnel of thé investigators who EXIST DONCHER= Si GLAD To WEAZELS! will be acked to probe the commie. Wala mv DROP HIM THEY HANG AROUND, | sioners. Artie, We HE'S A NN l4anD M a an The request Gume after a tively DELIRI etd [7 1 AND GRAB A ND HANG AROUND, fee discussion, in which it was declar= - UP), THATS | meac Ticret AND HAN@ AROUND. — ed the attacks hinderad the rape _ Nees in a proper administration LL— A MiRace, VER i DIANA CAN'T BEAR Bash” county: affaire aed decreased. tha til *moMMER” |_ IN TIME, THE |: NaN ALLS.) Hen, SUT — on, wee, HASSENPFEFFE confidence of the taxpayers Dicc Pickles FAIR SEX 1S \ THEY'RE "FILLS INS” Suffragist leaders are divided as (wee MockORANGS), | te . to whether the Senite should vote . 6 0 vy on th amendment before ci et OM R (CONTINUED Tomorrow) or after demonstration planned for 6 “* | May 8