The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 1, 1914, Page 1

DEATH KNELL SOUNDED FOR HAMILTON COURTHOUSE RING! HE people will win. The Hamilton county ring T of legislator will g a solid front in November. wherever a public enemy is running for office, should be defeated by the combined votes government,” JOSH WISE SAYS: “Judd Mosscawn has Installed a moving pleture show In his moving van. His audiences are quite carried away with the idea.” Part Vv VOLUME 16. is doomed. The Ed Palmer innin he republican, democrat, pr of honest and nidependent citizens. declared Jay N. Robb, democratic candidate for commissioner, last night, “I am willing to The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, WASH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7. NO. 18 » and non-partisanship and Howard Taylor brand et scant satisfaction out of the movement of progressives and democrats to present Non-partisanship is having its decrees that socialist, he “In the interests of good ogressive or withdraw in favor of Mr. McKenzie to defeat Mike Carrigan and the Hamilton gang.” first, partisanship afterward! Robb has spoken well. very office GOOD CITIZENS SHQULD TAKE HAMILTON GANG effect fusion on é BY THE MER, AND E., GUIE, 1914, It is immaterial whether not necessary. BUT IT IS IMPORTANT 1 PLACE ON ELECTION DAY ON ALI AND AGAINST ALL LEGISLATIVE CANDIDA AND FRANK MANOGUE, AND J. A. GHENT TYPE Phat i night ON THAINS NEWS BTA ONE CENT AND be OFFICE Good government and democrats SION OF ALL ONTROLLED THE ED PAL- HAT Fl TES OF AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — To- and Friday rain; moderate southerly winds. | ON FIELD OF GLORY — THE DAY AFTER! Correspondent Burton Views Mangled Dead on Battlefield FRENCH CLAIM GREAT VICTORY “vor never heard of Rudolph. Rudolph never heard of Ivor. where, has said, ‘Wa ARREDDES, France, Sept. By Harry P. Burton Yet each of them files at the other—and dies; for some one, some- —‘“La gauche! La gauche!” called the old French woman to me from the upstairs window of her little pink brick villa that stood in its prim little garden on the white ribbon road to Trilport, and her long, bony finger betokened a passage over miles and miles of cabbage fields that lay flat as a griddle, hissing in the overpowering sun. “La gauche?” (to the left?) 1 questioned again, for at the far end of these hot, sticky cabbage fields I saw only a heavy forest swimming in the heat. “Oui! Oui!” she cried, resorting to my mono: “La gauche—Boise de Meaux—Trilport—Pari: jlabic French as if to make me comprehend. And so | started “To the left—through the Woods of Meaux—to Trilport—and then to Paris!” Cabbages! Cabbages! Nothing but cabbages! For half an hour | dragged my way through that palpitating, sticky, saffron-grounded field until these countless, blue-green heads swam dizzily before my eyes. the and I could not count them. or Germans. For they were JUST PEOPLE to me. even differentiate And then, suddenly, a terrible stench sprang from my nostrils until I reeled, AND 1 SAW THAT THE DEAD WERE ALL AROUND ground ME! I was face to face with the most terrible sight in all the world—a BATTLEFIELD of yesterday! I could not, with the first shock, them—French or English Clean, beautiful human beings—men and boys—young as | or younger—with most of life still to unfold before them and now marred and battered and bruised and cut into one reeking mass of carrion! _ SCHOOL TEACHERS y MAY FORM A UNION T9 BOOST SALARIES By Fred L. Boalt The Seattle Central Labor Council last night passed a motion offered by Hulet Wells to get the views of the school board as to organizing the public school teachers. The board has not yet been approached, but it is pretty) certain that the school authorities generally do not take kindly to the idea. I was told at school headquarters today: “Seattle teachers are well paid. They ought to consider themselves lucky, in these lean times, if they do not get a 5 per cent cut tn salary. than have federal employes. We doubt if the board will even entértain the suggestion of a union of teachers.” As teachers’ salaries go, Se- teacher is $1,110. attie teachers are “well paid.” A principal of an But they are not well paid school gets from $1,392 to $2, as the teachers in many cities High school on the coast. They are better $1,020 to $1,560. paid than the general run of . teachers in the Eas A Seattle elementary teacher starts in at $840 a year. The maxi mum ealary for an elementary GIRL ENDS LIFE ON MOUNTAIN TRAIL SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Oct. 1- Miss Florence Duddy, 22, ended her life by swallowing poison yester. day. Miss Duddy, with her 12-year old brother, had gone for a day's outing on Mount Tamalpais and was on the way back when she took the poison. Ili health is| thought to have been the cause. elementary 60. Seattle the to I have in mind two teachers, One is a woman, other a man who has risen principal of an elementary school The woman is no longer young. As sho is still beautiful, I t it for granted that she might have married. As {t is, she supports herself and her mother. She is equipped for high schoo! teaching. But she has a fra aptitude for teaching very small children, She takes them in their first school year, a critical time. It is the first time they have been away, from thelr mothers’ apron strings. They are timid, scared, Mable if crossed to weep and hav (Continued on Page Two.) If} LENG SST Qué MANS QRINTOV EED a physician know Latin? N A negative answer comes from the last place from which one would expect it—an English university. Thousands of English boys begin their Latin as soon as they can read English. It is good form. It is the way of their fathers But the University of Sheffield has announced the adoption of the policy of not requiring Latin in the preparation of students taking degrees In medicine! The boys entering from the classical schools have passed well In Latin, but have learned that ancient language at the expense of science —and were found not to make as good doctors as those who specialized upon those things which doctors need to know. Dr. Hall, answering the argument that doctors should know Latin because they must write their prescriptions in that language, replied that he really does not know what language It is in’ which prescrip tions are written, but it certainly is not Latin Vice-Chancellor Fisher of the university stated that the omission of Latin would give the students more time’ for medicine and surgery— things which it seems advisable for doctors to know something about! 1 believe the study of Latin and Greek should be omitted from the requirements of ali schools supported by public money. These re quirementa are no longer based on common sense, or anything else save foolish conservatism. Let us abandon these old educational fetishes, toward’ the morning of the new knowledge—which is life. Public school teachers have no more right to organize} teachers get from} n | and set our faces) And thie was only the very fringe of horror—this cabbage field! 1 knew that, for, farther on, | could now see that the dead were lying—not singly among the turquoise cabba ds, but In ghastly fitt where they had heaps | falien in aay into each other's the woods be- ond there | knew | should see Y THE FULL _Pnics OF WARI | I HAD a tittle hottie of camphor } in pocket. Living on} “grospain™ and raw onions produces indigestion that only cam phor ean alleviate, and I poured some of the balmy fluid on my/| handkerchief. With the cool, pungent cloth preased tight against my nostrils, I stumbled on through | this PATCH OF VICTORY! ' The horror grew. There were more bodies now, and the cabbages had been pulver- ized by tramping feet and blown | apart by falling shells, and the leaves, clutched in dead men’s hands, were brown with dried blood. And the faces of the soldiers, covered with dried blood, went turning blue-green as the cabbage leaves in the blaze of the sun's rays. But now it was not just dead sol diers that proclaimed the wake of battle. About me everywhere were broken bottles—wine bottles and whisky flasks and canteens bent beneath artillery wheels. And, here and there, proud helmets—of Uhlan and dragoon allke—covered with dust, were beaten into just tin. Musketa, and great guna, carriages, blazed in the sunshine among the dead. One of them had fallen full across two German sol-| diers, crushing their heads into e ground Nor had the oavalrymen’s horses ed. Beautiful, sleek colts were dead there by hundreds, and |many of them ‘had, in their death | agonies, crushed thelr riders to | death also. | Pleces of shells, Jagged and mer clless, were strewn about thickly and, as I approached the woods, |grew in number. It was evident that the shell fire had been direct Jed against the forest I kicked my way through the |debris and pierced the cool, green Jaisles of trees, and the birds were singing. B There, in the very trenches | from which they had fired, |were the German troops—they who |had been cheerful, happy boys of the Valley of the Rhine—mowed down by sheets of raining lead. Go thickly were they packed In, In some places, that THEY STOOD IN DEATH, FOR THEY COULD NOT FALL! Trees were side—Just as th tered on ever cluttered the land shot from their too, . UT below— ee shattered men Je—by teal tostruments men Flowers and ferns were torn up by hundre bushes and saplings} had been blown out of thetr soll, | and the irds, and the | birds 5 s, Were scattered on every were shat the diabol have made. jeen, 1 T MY very | A Frenchman and a Ger- |r man, the arm of one | about the other and an empty | canteen between them. And | like to think that, as they died, they divided their water and their rations and | knew that, after all, the people of the Rhine are brothers to the people of the Seine, and feet, lay a | George | didate is that they themeeive: quarre! with each other. I gained the road finally and looked back over that fleid that tells only a very tiny part of the awful cost/of this war And as I w. thinking of “Ro. oiph and ivor,” brothers IN DEATH, from the onst a great had no Nature, tent outraged, still was pa- bruised earth FusionPlan Adopted to Beat Ring! At the conference last night tn the Good Eats cafeteria between progressive and democratic candt dates for county and legislative of. fices, the program was/ agreed upon in. part, as follows: day N. Robb, will withdraw fusion mers, in order to make sare the frat of Mike Carrigan, the Hamilton kang candidate Louis Willems, progressive, is to with draw in favor of Louis Ziebarth, deme- erat, for stale senator tn the Sird dis. jest William Wray, republican corge Murphy, democrat, ts to with ‘aw in favor of George W Ka Palmer, demorrat, ate sen Howard already t ©. 8 Follett and progressives, and democrat, have withdrawn, r. Lochridge, democrats, » progressive. In the Sint district F.C. Leonard, dea. rat, has already withdrawn in favor of I Houser, progressive, far state ven. he 85th district Dr, John ©. Gosnell, onmive, has withdrawn aa candidate and @ fusion candidate ard representative district Paul ipe and A. ¥. sives, are to be endorsed ats Force, pee- democrat the 44th district MH. ©. greesive, and Tom 8. Patterson, are to be jointly endorsed In the 45th digtrict George W. Bright and 1. W. Barnard, progressives, are to be endorsed by rats also 0 be en: It is more n likely that an agreement on fusion will be reach ed by A. EB. Fuller and P. T. Wiltse, candidat for engineer; Paul Land and John H. Fletcher andidates for assessor; Miss L. P. White anc st Jobn, candidates for county superintendent Dr. Wil am McDowell and Dr. Jeff Nel son, candidates for coroner; Rufus W. Littleton and W. ¢. Hyatt, can didates for treasurer.” Mead Will Get Out It is practically certain George M. Mead, democrat, will withdraw in favor of Dr. Walter T. Christen sromressive, for county com missioner against Krist Knudsen, epublican 1. C. Lebold, democrat, will withdraw tn Ww McElwaine, pre for county eh Sickels, republican The fir deciston dates on the fusion matter will be made to their respective central committee by Saturday night, probably favor of al or the candi support | Judge | She was sending her heal-| jing to the marred, dead were left lying on th “THE HAR ? i A battlefield after the battie—After the flight of the Germans from the Marne district bodies of their — UNREST GERM NEW YORK, Oct, 1.—Trus- tees of the Rockefeller Foun- dation announced today the in- auguration of an investigation Into industrial relations, “for the well being of mankind throughout the world.” } W..L. Mackenzie, former minis \ter of labor for Canada, has been Jappointed director The root of social | was announced, wo! scientifically and s “It is hope th |eays, “an investi« of which the foundation will win for itself the }not alone of employers, working men, industrial organizations, indi viduals and institutions interested | jin social reform, but also of gov ernments and universities throu out the world The experience of several countries will be drawn upon,” $35,000 RAISED lisorders, pre tematica announceme fon on a 8 )-operation The thermometer indicating progress of the Chamber of Com |merce campaign to raise $150,000 for convention purposes next year rose to 3,000 at noon today BRITISH STEAMER HITS MINE; LOST LONDON, Oct 1 ‘The British hip Selby, laden with twerp, has been sunk by a mine in the North . according to a dispatch deceived by Lloyd's today. It was said the crew of 21 was saved MUST PAY OR SIZZLE LONDON, Oct. 1,—Residents of towns and cities occupied by German army are given their choice of paying the war indemnity de manded by the invaders or of suf fering their city to be looted, according to correspondents [of the London Times, st for | liminary is capable | | the! } | | | the! burned and| NOW JOHN D.’S OPEN RENTON 6,000,000 MEN ON TRAIL OF RATE HEARING The public service commis- | sion, sitting at the Chamber of | Commerce, opened this morn- | Ing a hearing on the petition | | VIENNA, via Rome, Oct. 1.— Four huge battles were in prog- ress in the eastern theatre of the war today, Six million men were en- gaged. Nowhere were decisive results yet in sight. With 1,000,000 troops of the sian first line, Gen was fighting to pr Hindenberg of the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway for an In- crease in passenger fares to 10 cents within the city limits, The forenoon was devoted to pre skirmishes, The real in vestigation was scheduled to fol low this afternoon The chief feature of the forenoon session was the presenting of a able compiled by the commission, listing several American cities where street railways operate suc- cessfully on a b-cent basis. GRIFFITHS WILL TALK TONIGHT Will E. Humphrey or Chief Grif. | fiths for congress? Tonight, at 8 p, m., the opening gun in the final lap of the o will Rus- Rensenkampf vent Gen. Von and his German forces from breaking farther into the |czar's territory through the river | Nieman region A second German army was en ged with 500,000 Russians in the | » forests of Augustowo, a coun |try filled with small lakes and | swamps Southward the Russian central | army of 100,000 fresh, recently mo- bilized troops, advancing on a, | Silentan frontier, was dy in contact with the German advance line in front of the chain of north and south forts centering at Ka | licz, just on the czar's side of the Russian Polish border Both Tarnow and .Przemysl, which still held out, despite the loss of a part of its forts, were be ing heavily bombarded, ngres: fired by sional campaign be |the chief himsvit. riffiths, progressive nominee for congress, will be the chief speaker at the rally tonight at sonic hall, 617 Kilbourne st., mont DAILY ANALYSIS Steamers Tanana last boats of season for | Horse, sail from Fairbanks. White MEET IN FOUR: BiG BATTLES: and Selkirk, | By Wm. Philip Sims PARIS, Oct. 1.—Gen. Gallieni and his staff were |jubilant today. They were already claiming a sweeping victory for the allies. “Personally,” said one — high officer, “we are en- © |tirely confident. We know ~ the’ Germans are a rapidly at many points that they have been f jto fight desperately to save jtheir extreme right from complete rout. “This in itself does not justify an official claim that we are victorious. The sit- juation at the center remains unchanged and the tables might be turned on us. But our successes at both ends” of the line mean more to every day. “Unless [ am mistaken, we si ali! Indications were that {he aller successes were due to the arrival of British reinforcements. Unofficial reports were current that both British territorials agd Indian troops were in action. The losses on both sides were sa large that they were being with. — held temporarily. It was admitted that many French regiments had been annihilated completely, GERMANS REACK CITY OF COLOGNE LONDON, Oct. 1,—Sixty-five thousand wounded Germans have reached Cologne thus far, accord: ing to an Evening News dispateh received here by way of Copem hagen. | The exposition buildings, it was |stated, had been converted into | hospitals. Most of the patients were said to be victims of the ak | les’ artillery fire. Large numbert were suffering from shattered legs. The same dispatch said Cologne had been in a panic concerning aerial attacks ever since British airmen dropped bombs upon the javiation ground there. Twenty-one suspected spies were executed in Cologne in one day, it was added. : FORTS BEAT OFF GERMAN FLEET PETROGRAD, Oct. 1.—News of an engagement Sept. 24 between the shore forts of the Russian Baltic port of Windau | and a German squadron which sought to land troops on the coast was made public here today. Including warships and transports, the German fleet was said to have consisted of about 40 vessels. The fort guns opened on it heavily and, after several ships had been | damaged, all withdrew. -Y ANALYSIS OF WAR NEWS| © THE ALLIES’ PERSISTENT movement to the northward, par- alleling the Germans’ western front in Northeastern France, has prob: ably, by today, permitted French skirmishers to re-enter Belgium, Orchies, where outposts are said jholding stiffly as the allies tap it |for signs of weakness, but the lat- ter are approaching nearer and nearer to the Belgian corner of the battle square, where its powers of resistance have not yet been tested. Reports from both French and to have clashed, is only five miles| German sources indicate that the south of the Belgian frontier, and allies again dominate the Meuse, 32 miles due west of Mons, which|and that the Germans’ determined Is reported to have been Gen. Von efforts have been without results, Boehm's headquarters. |despite initial successes. From Orchies there is hothing to| This matter of losing what has prevent French scouts from pene-|been gained is very bad for an trating Belgium along one of the|army on the defensive. It creates roads by which the Germans orig-|a feeling among the men that they inally invaded France, are risking their lives uselessly. . : ° THE GERMAN FRONT is THE GERMAN CONCENTRA- tion for a siege of Antwerp can have for its primary object only the capture of the main Belgian jarmy now behind the Antwerp | forts, releasing tor action at the |front the German forces hitherto held fast in Beigium by the danger of raids on the Teutonic lines of communication. Such a siege, however, tempor arily requires a large number of troops, which probably is the mr son why it was postponed. Now, when circumstances require, as never before, the presence of every available German on the firing line, valuable units must be devoted to the work of subduing Antw