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

| OW th N I hey saw how miserable he was. It's all very sad, to be sure, Yet this same boy with the woebegone countenance w hibitive pace, and yes 1 the University district terda Residents in that district are complaining constantly of scorchers MORE THAN d hia girl pupils, fresh, but the Hie kisae: were canned. THIS THING from La fumed. direct he E chef, France, Pardieu! much “chagrin.” it call for dinner had been made—e 1 times, in fact. But the guests at the Frye hotel Tuesday evening failed to budge. Why eat when the momentous question was stili unanawered. “Does a hen set on her eggs or does she sit on ‘em?” dictlon- * implored to voice his opinion, the clerk went about In a daze, the telephone girl set out—or should we say tat out—to solve the problem through the chief supervisor. The place was aquiver with excitement Ann’s age has passed the conundrum stage. The mye tery of the Man in the Iron Mask was only academic. But here was a 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY TEACHER AT Pend d'Ore TO DRIVE US ALL NUTS les r was VOLUME 16 IS GOING live, sizzling, hot-off-thegriddle “Does a hen sit or For two hours the discussion continued. “Well,” says A. B. Ferguson, the Frye Hote! De! club's official spokesman, “we finally decided It.” Oh, joy! “We Set 'Em; Hen Sits” “We decided,” says Fergu- son, “that we set the eggs and a hen sits on them.” Foiled again! Elmer W. Davis, 512 East 82nd at., makes no such com- promises Frye hotel crowd. H 3 Webste: dictionary, new census edition, section seven: “Sit—to Incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl.” Another man Just rang up to say he can prove by the same dictionary that a hen “sets. On, where ist Moses to lead us out of this wilderness? ELEVATED DOCKS AND DEPOTS “NEW PORT PROJECT Details of a campaign for construction, ultimately, of a municipally owned elevated electric system to loop around rapid-transit terminus for Sound passenger steamers, are being worked out by the rt commission. he plans will be taken up with RICH GIRLS IN AN IMMORAL LIFE, HE SAYS CHICAGO, June 17.—Delegates here in attendance at the General Federation of Women’s clubs con- vention were much aroused over the statement made by Geo, Kneeland, the New York vice investigator, in an address before the gathering Tuesday, to the effect that he had a list of 300 girls belonging to rich families who were secretly practic- ing immorality. “Yesterday was the first time I ever discussed this subject public ty,” gald Kneeland. Warns His Hearers “One women’s club refused me permission to tell its members the truth. “But I warn you club women to look out for your own daughters, and the daughters of the other re spectable women in your cities. ‘The girls on my list are not weak-minded or sub-normal, either.) Most of them go wrong from 4 spirit of rebellion against the dullness or strictness of their home life. They Turn to Strangers “They generally turn to strang- ers. They seem innocent on a cas- ual acquaintance, but in the close personal contact of modern dances they lose control of themselves. “T sent an inspector to my home Massachusetts, and he of girls of 15 or 16, apparently respectable, who really were leading lives of vice LOOP TO | the council as soon as the scheme is complete. The port commission proposes to take over the Colman and Grand) \Trunk Pacific docks, and rebuild them into an immense marine “union depot.” In the event that this should fatl, they will remodel the new port dock jat the foot of Bell st. to fit their needs. Won't Dump ’Em on Tracke They propose, by the elevated road, to route munictpal street cars| along the water front and carry all/ passengers from Sound steamers ie town, instead of having them | dumped from the steamers {nto the mud and danger of the railroad| tracks, at the city’s back door, as is done now. | Bob Bridges, a member of the |commission, figures the elevated | would be an extension of the propos- ed municipal line from Fourth av. down Washington st., on the depot loop. | Would Run on Western Av. | ‘The elevated tracks would cross First ay. on Washington st. and proceed down the west side of West-| ern av This would necessitate the coun cil’s vacating several old franchises | granted the Northern Pacific and| |Great Northern for tracks along} | that section of the water front when |the depot was at Columbia st. and Western av. The tracks are now only used for storage purposes, and in a measure are a menace. The municipal line would thus handle the majority of marine pas- sengers entering the city Simliar to Frisco Project Hauling these uptown, it would deliver them to rival companies on |a transfer basis. Similarly, these companies would | deliver all outgoing passengers to| the municipal line. The project is similar to the ter-/ minus at the foot of Market st., in San Francisco. “The elevated road will be neces- sary eventually,” says Bridges, “for it will never be possible to build a car line on grade on Western ay.” LOS ANGELES, June 17.—Six persons are suffering from injuries sustained in automobile accidents here. BIG POPULAR PORT COMMISSION'S BONDS “Judging from applications we ere receiving, the port bonds are going to go like hot cakes”, is the enthusiastic statement given today by W. S. Lincoln, auditor of the port commission. Subseription blanks are now ready, both at The Star office and the port commission office in the Central building. A number of subscriptions have giready been made, But the big “clean-up” day will be Saturday It’s the first time that city, or port bonds have been offered “over the counter” to the public. Usually the denominations of the DEMAND FOR bonds were #o large that the aver- age man and woman couldn't buy | them. | This time, the bonds have been | reduced to $100 denomination, so that the bankers and brokers jeouldn’t gobble ‘em all up, The! bonds are giltedge and.bear 5% | interest. Do you want one? 750 sold—the total | $75,000. Get a subscription blank today, | fill it out, and buy your bond or bonds Saturday. For any addition- |al information, apply to W. 8. Lin- jeoln at the port commission. There will be| bond fasue is to the municipal whart, — | ¢ They’re Puttin was a a softening in the eyes of court spectators, when as fined last week for hurtling through the streets at a y police officers charged him with traveling 15 miles an hour over the speed limit He is only a boy, to be sure, and probably in the class of the “$12-a-week laundry drivers,” recently referred to by the judge, when he told The Star how he hated to lock up these worthy workers THE PATH OF THE MOTORCYCLE GUIDED BY THIS BOY WOULD BE JUST AS DEAD IF STRUCK AS IF HIT BY THE SPEEDING AUTO OF A CAPITOL BUT THE HILL MILLIONAIRE, It hurts just as much to be hit by a delivery clerk’s machine as by the machine of a capitalist. draw no line of distinction between the two in the matter of jail sentences. TO JAIL! THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE TO SUFFER BY IT, LET THEM REMEMBER NEXT TIME THEY JEOPARDIZE SEND THEM IF THAT THE LOVED ONE FINITELY MORE IF INNOCENT LITTLE THOSE < Our Speeders in Jail! at u 7” . ge a Gordon has begun to carry out his threats to send auto and motorcycle speeders to jail, senti- _ment < . beyond doubt, have its inning on the other side of the question, rank Lindquist, the boy motorcyclist with the distinction of being the first to receive a sentence, itia ue figure yesterday afternoon in the dock, where he sat trying to keep back the tears, After all, thought the crowd, he is just a boy, and there was CHILD IN S$ OF THOSE LIVES WERE WHOSE LIVES SNUFFED OUT. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO, 98. MOTORCYCLE SPEEDER GETS TERM IN JAIL Youth in for Second Time Draws First Prison Sen- tence From Gordon. HAS NEW SCHEDULE Announces if Fine Totals More Than $100, Offender Will Go to Cell. A real sensation was sprung in Judge Gordon's court yesterday aft- ernoon, during the regular Tuesday review of speeders, when the judge, with a firm mouth and a stern face, SENT TO JAIL Frank Lindquist, a young motorcyclist, «ho.wes op. for. speeding only last week. At that time he was fined $15. Sits Gioomily in Dock Lindquist will spend ten days in jail. and will, besides, have to pay a fine of $20. If he can't pay it, he'll have to spend ten days more bebind the bars. Lindquist thought It something of a joke before sentence was passed, but when he realized what !. meant be turned pale. He was hustled tnto the dock with an assortment of bums, fight- ers and down-and-outers, where he sat the rest of the afternoon with his chin In his hand, staring at the floor. Immediately following him came Fred Magnussen, also for speeding. | Fined $30, he defaulted and went tnto the dock The judge gave evidence through- out the afternoon of a change of heart on the speed question. As he fined Lysie Bower $3 for riding ® machine without a tail light, he warned the young man It would go hard with him next time, and exclaimed testily: Raises Fine Schedule “I am getting tired of these traf- fle violations.” Earlier in the afternoon he sup- pl d his morning announce ment of a raise In the schedule of for over-limit speeding to $5 a by the information that, after next week, if fines amount to $100 or more, the guilty party won't have the privilege of paying it HE'LL GO TO JAILI This, the judge enys, will apply except in the business district, where the speeder will get a jail sentence if he is traveling 20 miles or more. EUGENIC LAW 0.K. MADISON, Wis. June 17—~The state supreme cc today upheld the constitutionality of the Wiscon sin eugenics law, which provides that both parties to a marriage con- tract must obtain physicians’ certif- feates of physical fitness before a license can be Issued. has asked the police to locate Charles Gallagher, believed to have wandered from home during a fit of temporary delirium. Since being bitten by a dog some weeks ago, young Gallagher has been a victim of temporary mental lapses. a ii With Oa | | SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1914. GIRL GOES WITH SEATTLE AUNT | TO STALK BIG GAME IN ALASKA Pauline Painter ALAMEDA, Cal, June 17 Pauline Painter will hunt big game in Alaska for three months this summer. Tiring of the continual round Painter, with rifle and knapsack, w | sheep in their native Klondike. This Dianaof-today will be one of so-called social activities, Miss ill stalk the caribou and mountain of a party of four. Her aunt, Mrs Webster Norcross of Seattle, will be the only other woman member of the expedition The men of the party are to be A. Dalton Harrison, Miss Painter's uncle, and Henry Landsberger of San Francisco. soon to Join Mra. Webster Norcross in Seattle. travel by steamer to Sitka, They will pass a portion of their time fishing for salmon—arriving on the fishing grounds during the height of the salmon season. Then they will hit the trail overland to Dawson. VILLA MAY BREAK WITH CARRANZA EL PASO, June friends of Gen. 17.—Although |ranza’s handling of rebel Villa here deny | was the censorship of certain of the affairs there has been an open rupture be-| former's telegrams. tween Villa and Carranza, and at- Many believed his reason for tempt to explain the seizure of the| wanting the operators at Torreon bureau of information at Juarez by was to learn from them who was Villa's subordinates by declaring it) responsible for holding up his wire due to a misinterpretation of orders, | correspondence. the opinion here ts that when the/ situation clears Villa will be found in control throughout Northern Mexico. Send Prisoners to Torreon Despite the statement that Villa has no intention of causing disaf-| fection In rebel ranks, 30 Carranza ista officers under arrest were sent today to Torreon, whither Villa has called all his aldes. It 1s understood one of the causes of Villa's dissatisfaction with Car- GIVEN RELEASE BY PROSECUTOR Mra, Blanche Smith, the “woman in the case” in the sensational death of Michael D. Samuels, the Nome merchant, who died of a re- volver wound, June 3, in the Seat- tle hotel, gained her freedom from legal restraint today after three ap- pearances before the coroner's Ju Further investigation by Prose tor Murphy following an indefinite} verdict by the jury, failed to reveal evidence that Would warrant the ar-) rest of the woman, | FINDS HOME ROBBED | When Mra, EB. Curtis, 973 John ast. returned from a visit to Port land yesterday she found her home had been entered and jewelry and other articles valued at $200 stolen. BLANCHE SMITH STARVING WOMAN FAINTS WHILE ON HER WAY TO PRAY Weak from lack of food, Mrs. athleen Meek, 409 Dexter st., col- lapsed in front of 2324 Sixth av. last night. She was picked up by yassersby and taken into the house and given temporary treat ment and was then taken to the City hospital, Policewoman Wiard investigat ed the case last night and found the woman's husband fll and out of work. Mrs. Meek said she had had noth- ing to eat all day yesterday and was on her way to church to pray for asaistance when she collapsed. Register! If you haven't registered this year, you must do so at once to vote on the Hinky Dink char- ter. 5 p.m. Friday. Books are now open at the Prefontaine bulld- ing. If you have registered for the city election In M. then you need not register again. Registration will close at ON THAINS AND NEWS RTANDS. Be ONE CENT HAS IT REFORMED? If Republican Party HAS Seen the Light, It Will Adopt Progressive Platform Similar to That Proposed Below. the state convention in Tacoma tomorrow, the republicans of Washington have the rN | |They cannot blow hot leating the progressive and cold. It hopes that the progressive, parties—republican well as oth rs applied in this state. If the republicans are not progressi' counties have again endorsed. issues at all But the test of the good faith of the republic It must either be progressive or reactionary. and it must be frank and aboveboard. must not hedge. opportunity to show whether they have If they are progressive, they will adopt a platform advoe inciples that are now live issues in this state. tionary, they should frankly come out and oppose these progressive ideas. As a non-partisan paper, The Seattle Star sincerely hopes that the day of “bossism,” ‘handpicking” and stealing of delegates is past, and that the republican party is now com= trolled by the rank and file and dedicated to princ iples of social and industrial justice. humane, and just principles will control all of the political And it is in a spirit of entire sincerity that The Star presents the platform herewith as a model for the republican state convention tomorrow. The Star believes it contains the fundamental progressive principles which should be IF THE REPUBLICANS ARE AS SINCERE IN THEIR DEC- LARATION, THAT THEY ARE AS PROGRESSIVE AS THE PROGRESSIVES, THAT THEY HAVE THROWN BOSSISM OVERBOARD, AND THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANOTHER PARTY, THEN THEY SHOULD ADOPT THE PLATFORM SUGGESTED BY THE STAR.OR ONE SIMILAR TO IT. + ee r ves, they should adopt a reactionary platform su ; as the Aberdeen Taft platform of 1912, which the Pierce, Chehalis, Thurston, and other — | Politicians such as guided the drafting of the King county platform will attempt to draw a platform as pusillanimous as the King county affair, which failed to deal with state Justice should WOULD SUFFER IN- AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Thursday; light west- erly winds. become progressive or are still reactionary, If they are reace ns must be their platform tomorrow, Ie If the republicans are really progressive, they will adopt a platform along the following " lines on state issues: the republican party, in convention assembled, the progressive principles of the republicans ed by Abraham Lincoln. We reaffirm our pledges in the platfor adopted by the repub- licans, BUT WE EXPRESSLY DISAFFIRM ANY ALLEGIANCE TO THE PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE SO-CALLED CONVENTION IN CHICAGO IN 1912, BELIEVING THAT SAID CONVENTION DID NOT REPRESENT THE RANK AND FiLE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, BUT WAS UNFORTUNATE- LY COMPOSED OF AND CONTROLLED BY BOSSES AND THEIR STOLEN DELEGATES. “We deplore the fact that the Aberdeen conven- tion of the republican party of the e of Washing: ton was similarly controlled b: and their ‘handpicked’ delegates, and we a it did not | represent the sentiment of the majority of the re- | publicans of the state of Washington, We expressly disaffirm any allegiance to any so-called leadership of Messrs. Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and their type throughout the country, or Tom Fisk, 8. A. Per kins, W. T, Dovell, Beverly Coiner, Ed Benn, and their type in the state of Washington, who helped steal the convention at Aberdeen and deprived the rank and file of the republican party of this state of their voice In the convention. “We “We commend to the state and national govern- ment the policy of conservation in all natural re- sources. We hereby express our belief that the di- rect nomination and election of public officials, state and national, tends toward government of the people, for the people, and by the people, and hereby pled | the republican party of the s' of Washington to | the enactment of a preferential presidential primary | law. “We reaffirm our allegiance to the initiative power of the people, and pledge our members In the next legislature to vote for a constitutional amendment providing for the amendment of the constitution by the Initiative. “WE ALSO PLEDGE ALL OUR MEMBERS IN THE NEXT LEGISLATURE TO VOTE FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR THE RECALL OF JUDGES. We be e there is no such thing as “divinity of judges,” and the courts should be no more exempt from recall by the people when occasion so demands than any other public officer. | “Believing thoroughly in the principle of guaran. | teeing to the voters secrecy of ballot, we favor the | enactment of a law providing for a blanket ballot in primary elections. “We deplore the fact that the or- ganization of the last legislature pre- vented the passage of truly progressive If the Republican Party Has Reformed, It Will Adopt a Progressive Platform Similar to This measures and failed to enact any law providing for non-partisan county elec- tions, or the “first aid” amendment to the workmen’s compensation act, or the law to abolish private employment agencies, — or the “blue sky” law to protect investors in stock companies, or the law abolishing the bureau of inspection and accountancy as it is at present constituted, serving to no definite purpose and maintained at a high cost to the counties and cities of the state. WE EXPRESSLY AFFIRM OUR ALLEGIANCE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE INITIATIVE AND REFER- ENDUM MORE PARTICULARLY BECAUSE OF THE FAILURE OF THE LAST LEGISLATURE TO PASS THE ABOVE LAWS, and we deplore the fact that the people are now forced to employ the initiative in enacting these laws when it was the plain duty of the last legislature to have enacted them, and to have avoided unnecessary waste of time and labor and expense. “Believing that the legislature should be made rep resentative, and should not be controlled by any faction, or factions, we pledge our members in the next legislature to reform the house and senate rules and provide for the election of all committees, and for a dally calendar controlled by the majority of the members. 4 “We favor the ment of a thorough and draw tle corrupt practices act. We also favor the principle of home rule for cities of the first class. eee “We deplore the corrupt practice of ‘log roll Ing’ and ‘pork barrel’ methods in any legisiature, and we pledge our m ers to provide for the abolishment of the same in road buliding and other appropriations. | “Finally, believing that the rank and file of the republican party has always stood for progressive nd methods, and has always stood for human gainst special privilege, we again declare that id at Aberdeen and at Chicago in 1912, and representing the rank and file of the republica clare ous deter mination to restore the government of the state and nation to the people by whom and for whom it wae concelved.” { TACOMA, June will sit tomorrow, for the first time, Washington, according to State Spokane. Chairman Rupp, whose reports to- would be in seats whon the conven- tion ts called to order, at 10 a. m. vention will adopt. the first 17, — Women jin two years probably will be John H. Powell of Seattle, and the perma- in a republican state convention in nent chairman, Charles P, Lund of Much speculation is being indulg- day were that 25 of the gentle sex ed in as to what platform the con-| Chairman Rupp had before him) cluded. From the best information avail-|today the platforms adopted by all able, the temporary chairman of|the county conventions, and they ate republican gathering ‘run the gamut of republicanism fered in Star Want Ads, 25 WOMEN DELEGATES WILL HAVE SEATS from the ultra-conservative to the most radical. Denunciation of the Panama canal tolls exemption repeal, pro- tests against the demoeratic tariff and grilling for the Wilson-Bryan foreign policy are sure to be in- Golden Opportunities are of-