The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1914, Page 1

, Is It a Home for Girls Who Work? Or Is It Only an Expensive Hotel? The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ——— VOLUME 16. ey NO. SEATTLE, WASH. Correspondent Sims Ventures THURSDAY, S WHAT'S WRONG WITH SEATTLE Y.W.C.A.? ONE CENT oN N NIGHT EDITION TRAINS wn be EES BIG BATTLE! {to Front of French Line; Watches Guns Work; Talks With Generals; Is Arrested ch was received there evidences of 1k made so having mention of Ite author's arrest by the treope for going to the front, but It PARIS, Sept. 24.— Even the French gen- erals are ignorant of conditions along their fighting front except at the points for which they are personally re- . Sponsible. 4 I have just returned from the line of the Gallic left in the vicin- ity of Soissons, where the allies are slowly but surely driving the Germans under Gen. Von Kluck back upon his main s rt: He quickly at the news- papers for a week The generals, the soldiers, the people themselves are in the dark concerning the situa- tion as a whole, the govern- ment being determined to maintain the strictest secrecy lest, through some leak, the enemy secure information by which he may profit SEES SHELLING OF TOWN I was in Solssons a week ago, when the allies and the Germans were fighting for pos session of it. Now the French hold it The German artillery ts mounted on a ridge extending northward from the city. For eight days it has maintained this position. It alternately shells the city itself and*the French positions to the south- ward ‘ I witnessed a duel between a French aviator and the artil- lery posted on this ridge. The airman had been or dered to ascend with an officer to determine the exact posl- tions of the German guns. I watched him through a pair of binoculars, He maneuvered recklessly, despite the shells which burst near him. Suddenly he would surge di- rectly upward, then, describ- ing a giant spiral, he would drop down. DODGES GERMAN SHELLS Always his movements were so timed as to spoll the Ger- mans’ alm. Braving death in this way, he flew far across the discovering the kats- Y tleally impregnable position tn @ rook quarry, mith the guns masked and mounted, #0 as to command the allles' entire po- sition. Having returned and made this report, the aylator ascend- gt again and braved the shell# ‘afresh while giving their range to the French artillerymen, who had mounted their three- inch guns advantageously. CATHEDRAL SHATTERED They showered the Germans with explosive shells and Has Seattle’s r Y.W.C.A.Failed? Watch The Star Our grandmothers tel! us that, in the days when they were young, the relation between the Mistress of the Home and her Housemaids was feudal and beautiful. The Mistress taught her Housemaide to make beds, mend stock- Ings, lay a table and cook meals. She did more; she looked after the physical and spiritual welfare of her Housemalds. sick in body, she gave her a physic. with her. Was a Housemaid Was she In these modern times this feudal relation between Mistress and Housemaid cannot exist. In a measure the Young Women’s Christian Association hae tried to take the piace of our great-grandmothers. ee ae HAS IT SUCCEEDED? Ick In soul, she prayed | compelled to slacken their fire, but they did not abandOn their position arcely a house tn Solssons 1s uninjured. The cathedral of Notre Dame Is badly shattered Its windows are all broken and there is a big hole in Its roof. | The atreets are deserted | The city's Inhabitants are all hiding in the cellars | Shrapnel dropped every | where. Nobody dares attempt | to cross the battered which spans the Alsne | As soon as a single person bridge Germans they have appears the firing, and range exactly The French troops have no doubt of the result here, how ever. They are already begin the declare the Germans retiring [Preparing for the Defense of Termonde!| | | Ever since the new home of the “VY” was completed and occupied | ‘The Star has been receiving letters concerning that institution. Others have stoutly defended. have harshly criticised. Some The charge has been made that the new home of the “Y” ie too palatial, that it does not offer the right kind o' ‘working girl, that its methods are too commercial, and that, while the contributing public has been given to unde in fact, a rather high-p: table institution, it | and that it le a charl- id and exclusive hotel. Friends of the “Y” claim that It fills adequately a very great need and deserves public support. articles about the “Y.” ORROW. re, if at all, It falle, The Star has asked two Seattle women to contribute each a series | One criticises; the other defends. Both are earnest and truthful, but they have different points of view. The first of the articles in criticiam of the “Y” will be printed TO- The others wil! follow jally. Star readers will be left to judge wherein the “Y” succeeds and “in Vienna there are 20,000 wounde “Five thousand wounded passed through Orleans dally for five days. f “1 counted 30 trains choked with wounded.” So run just a few of the returns | read from behind the firing There's not a city of village, there's scarcely a farm house left stand- Ing in the embattled countries on which war has not already laid its bloody finger print—and the returns are just beginning to come in, it fast - as aman remains alive. But what of those The rulers say th But, after all, When they get their fill of misery an: hard te make @ peace. sy for the czar to say he will take Berlin If it costs him his pealant; for the kalser to tell his people that they must “fight so 10 have to bleed and suffer; who have to die? aren't ready for peace; that the war must go on till the enemy is bé ten to his knees. it is the people who have the last say. 4 sacrfiice, It will not be so f a home for the poor | ——— 7 ga ss Be Abeta gree HI c ca, Sk Fate. aS for the Guns “On the day to abol legislation. A MAKESHIFT. Woman Takes Night Stroll in Her Birthday Duds and Falls in Lake “Ww OMAN. drowning,” somebody told the thie morning, police at 2 o'clock over the phone from Leschi park. Two motorbike rushed to the: scene. They found that a young wom- an living In a houseboat had gone sleep-walking, had strolled off the board walk into three feet of water, and then, surpris- ed out of her nap, had startied the neighborhood with her screams for help. She had divested herself of her nightie before starting on her walk. No, she didn’t give the police her name. cops were LETTER TELLS 'VON KLUCK ADJ. BROOKS AWFULSTORY AND GERMANS PUT ON TRIAL OF GRIM WAR The horror and distress at- tendant upon the German in- vasion of the little Belgian city of Termonde are graphically described in a | ir to Mre. R. Vandermark, 3103 Firat from a relative living in t stricken city, the former of Mrs. Vandermark, a sister and two brothers, all of whom are now residents of Seattle. “No new clothes and only the) plainest food for all of us this win ter,” sobbed Mrs. Vandermark.| “All of our money will go to help Madame Martin, of whom my rela tive tells, and our other old nelgh- bors in Termonde.” The letter from Termonde “Thank the good not in Belgium not realize con- now. ditions. The Germans seemed to pick out the bulidings to aim their shells at. “The fruit trees and the fields have been ewept clean of food, “What the Germans could not eat they shipped ahead to the army. Hundreds of our friends have nothing. It is pit- iful to see our neighbors, many of them mothers, with babes in their arms, trying to get food or a few drops of milk for thelr children. “Bables are dying by the You remember \. and went to war and was killed. She is left ix children, the youngest a few months old, and the oldest just 13. HER HOME WAS BLOWN DOWN. THEY ARE HUNGRY AND NEARLY NAKED. Can't you spare a little money to re- lieve their distress? What money we had has al! gone for just such among our friends. THE RIVER MEUSE ACTUALLY RAN RED WITH BLOOD. You woud have thought the water was blood if you could have seen It.” Officers and men at Bremerton navy yard pay military honors to Jate Bugler John R, Hutchinson at funeral | PARIS, Sept. 24—Gen. Von Kiuck's German right wing atill fought gamely today in re- sistance of the Franco-British turning movement along the river Oise. A atatement issued here at midnight eaid the movement was siow but inexorable. The pressure on the German | wing was terrific. The kalser’s commanders evidently doing all In thelr power lieve it. Gen up to help Von Kluck, and was hold sons and Cambrai to St. Quentin, entrenched hills inclosed in the tri Von Kiuck Outnumbered mobilization centers in the south Von Kluck, the latter was heavily outnumbered, LONDON, Sept. 24.—Syndi- calists are placarding the walls In Berlin and other cities with the declaration, “We peace; down with the kal according to a News dispatch received today from Copen- hagen. It was said the police had not succeeded in finding the posters’ authors, “FIGHT GAMELY on Boehm's army, compris ng practically all the German active troops in Belgium, had been brought ing a line from Doual through Sols. and, despite the arrival of ald for still The losses of the German active corps have been enormous, The Bavarians have suffered most heavily. ! They had been reinforced by the| to the bottom Atself, second line of French troops from CRY FOR PEACE | Examination of jurors to try the cane against C. W ly adjutant of the Salvation Army at Seattle, accused of a statutory Brooks, former crime, was begun in Judge Mackintosh’s court ‘shortly after 11 o'clock this morning Mrs. Amanda Gordon, a Salva tion Army worker, is the complain. ing witness. It is probable the jury will not be selected till late this afternoon According to Mrs. Gordon, Brooks tricked her into his office in the Areado building, and, though she struggled to escape his amor ous embraces, she was powerless against him. BATTLE ATSEA PARIS, Sept. 24.—Concerning a Opposing the Germans, and en-| reported engagement near the en. deavoring to dislodge them from the| trance to the gulf of Finland, be- tween the Russian crulser Bayan angle formed by the Rivers Aisne,/and a German light cruiser and Oise and Lette, were the French|two destroyers, conflicting ac. and British forces respectively un-|cotnts were current here today. der Gens, D'Amade and French One version was that the Bayan The allies’ pian obviously was to| sank the German vessels, itself suf drive a wedge through the German | fering damage in the engagement line at St. Quentin, which would} Another story was that the Rus enable them to surround Von Kluck, | slan eraft was torpedoed amidships, | cutting him off from Von Boehm. | nevertheless succeeded in sinking the German boats, and then went WOMEN HIRE culia helped. | this until termine longs. MAN EDITOR; HERE IS WHY The Western Women’s} Outlook is edited by a man. The arrangement is pe-| but. it can’t. te of Mr THE SHAME OF WASHINGTON STATE MB:: WOODROW WILSON’S dying hope was that the bill to abolish the alley slums in the District of Columbia be passed. And Senator Wesley LORIMER Jones of Washington, who voted to keep in the senate the unspeakable Lorimer, and who rose to the defense of a crooked judge, ALSO ROSE TO THE DE- FENSE OF SLUMS. Read the account of it in The Survey, a non-political, non-partisan weekly published in New York. The account of Senator Jones’ disgrace appeared in The Survey, of August 22. Woodrow Wilson’s death, Aug- ust 6,” says The Survey, “the news dispatches carried the story of how the United States senate had passed a bill h alley slums in the District of Columbia, and how the district committee of the house of representatives had met in the morning and voted favorably on a similar bill, all this action in one day coming as the result of the interest of the president’s dying wife in much needed alley “These stories read well the day they were printed, but the sad thing to relate is that the senate DID NOT pass the comprehensive bill which Mrs. Wilson and the presi- dent, the board of district commissioners, and social work- ers of Washington approved, BUT RUSHED THROUGH “The senate committee had considered the compre- hensive measure looking to wiping out alleys in Washing- ton within the next 10 years and the creation of minor streets, BUT SENATOR JONES OF WASHINGTON EX- PRESSED OPPOSITION TO THIS BILL PRIVATELY, AND IT APPEARED THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOS- SIBLE TO GET QUICK ACTION ON IT. The senate then took up the makeshift.” Check Villa in- Revolution New WASHINGTON, Sept, 24.— Administration plans and hopes for peace in Mexico were upset today by official verification of reports that Gen. Francisco Villa had announced his deter- mination to lead a revolt against Provisional President Carranza. Confirmation of the reports was | received here today in a telegram from P dent Carranza to Rafael Zubaran Capmany, head of the constitutional agency of the Mext- can embassy. Villa followed up his proclama- tion, advices here say, by rushing troops south from Chihuahua as fast as trains could be made up to carry them, Their destination was believed to be Zacatecas. u Em . &. issaries on Job George Carothers, one of Prest- dent Wilson's emissaries in Mex ico, was ordered today to go to Chihuahua and ask Gen. Villa whether he would consider meth- ods other than armed hostilities to settle his dispute with Gen. Car. ranza, It was reported here that Paul Fuller, another of the American agents, and possibly John Lind, may return to Mexico at once in an | effort to prevent further bloodshed. A male editor must run| weekly for women} the courts can de- whom it be- to The Outlook was the de- signated organ of the Wash- ington State Federation of Women’s isn’t. Stevens was the editor of troops reporte: it. clubs. Now it Mrs. Helen Norton She is editor no longer. Her enemies have bought a con trolling interest in the weekly, and the federation is not as federated THERE WERE today that the German army wing. Reports of movements on part, both of the allies and the Ger- tl SPEND FIVE MINUTES AND YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WAR INDICATIONS) roughly, in a hollow square. | in} Capmany asserted today that Gen. Villa's war declaration was part of a plan to split Mexico and establish a new republic in the north General Villa's break with Car- ranza came as a thunderbolt from a clear sky to administration offi- cials. American consuls in Mexico had been led to believe that conditions were peaceful and that ” prepara- tions were being made for a con- vention on October 1 to arrange for permanent peace and a stable government. Will Withdraw Troops The presence of American troops in Mexico complicates matters so far as this government is con- cerned, but it was said at the White House that plans for the withdrawal of American troops would not be changed because of the Villa-Carranza split. Has 18,000 Cavairymen The announcement that the plans |to evacuate Vera Cruz would not be changed was contained in a statement that the embargo on arms would not be renewed for the pres- ent. High government officials pre dict that the break between Carran- za and Villa would be smoothed out soon. Latest advices received at the war department say Gen. Villa has at least 18,000 trained cavalrymen. American Consul Silliman, at Mexico City, telegraphed the state department that Provisional Presi- dent Carranza would not undertake an offensive campaign against Ville id would fight only if attacked. ‘CARRANZA MUST GO,’ SO GENERAL VILLA DECLARES CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Sept. 24 That he had ordered the mobiliza. tion of 25,000 troops of the constt. tutionalist army of the north at Tor- reon, where he expects to withstand until he {ts forced to flee like Huer- ta. I intend to push the campaign to a speedy conclusion,” Villa asserts Chihuahua, Sonora, Zacatecas and part of Coahuila are an attack from 10,000 Carranza | prepared to support him and that he d advancing to the | expects aid later from Durango, Sin- north via Aguas Calientes, was ad-|aloa and Aguas Calientes mitted today by Gen. Villa ———___—__——_ Gen. Angeles will command Gen.) G, H. Chadwell, golfing close be Villa's troops if the battle is fought. hind President Wilson, was knock- “Carranza must go in a hurry,”|ed unconscious by whizzing ball, Gen, Villa said, “I have declared | and the president sent him home ih hostilities and am prepared to fight | White House automobile, gaged in a successful HERE EVERY DAY en | attempt to] here the allies report they are meet: The southern and western faces! turn the German right, must now ing with the most determined re- France no longer possesses a right! of the square, with its angle at the | point where the German line bends the| away from the river Alsne to the| the square along Von Boehm’s and) northward, would be 8 were confusing, but they gave| Gen. impression that a new German| Kluck's and Gen. formed by| Boehm's, Gen, Von Von Von force under Gen. Von Boehm, from| forces. the north, had gotten in touch with The northern side would be the Gen. Von Kluck’s army and that| German corps in Belgium. what was battlefront, If the conclusions are correct, the Germans must now be drawn up, formerly the kaiser’s| right wing had become a complete sented by what was the German tact center. | be occupied in an effort to break Von Kluck’s front, sistance and cannot make head- a THE PROBLEM NOW BEFORE Since there is no longer a wing the allies is more difficult than the to move through a trenched battle line. The chief strategic position heavily Buelow’s| to be turned, they must undertake, one they faced when the battle of en-| the Aisne began. To pierce a battlefront as power- in| fully entrenched as is the Germans’ The eastern face would be repre-| this line would be the point of con-| is far more of an undertaking than “we | THE ALLIES, HITHERTO EN.| hd betwesn the southern fronts. western and to turn a flank, Unless the allies’. artillery proves more effective than This is the angle formed by the) it has hitrerto shown itself, a dk rivers Oise and Aisne, and it is! rect assauit must be made.