The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1914, Page 1

¥ Seattle Lands a || U.S.Refusesto Be Big Convention! || Dragged Into War THIS GIRL, NEW ENTRY IN PHONE CONTEST | PAPILLA PLP LPL LLL LLL LP LLP PPP PPP PUT A WOMAN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD! f lerecaas is no more worth-while sphere for woman’s activity in public mat- ters than in school work. The Star isin hearty sympathy with the idea of a woman director on the school board in Seattle. The woman’s point of view on so important a matter as the rearing of children will prove just as valuable on the school board as in the home. There is every argument to be made in behalf of a woman director; there is none worthy of consideration against the idea. One-half of the school population is feminine. All of them are children. More than one-half of the teachers are women. Why not a woman member of the school board? We have the business and profes- sional men’s point of view in the direction of our schools. Let us now also have the mothers’ point of view. Seattle should elect a woman member of the school board on December 5. TheSeattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News AST EDITION . WEATHER FORECAST — Rain tonight and Friday; fresh souther- ly winds. ON THAINS AND NEWS MTANDS. fe 19, 1914. ONE CENT VOLUME 16. NO. 230 Violence Is Threatened SEATTL Oh, people, just LOOK who's HERE! Of all the pretty giris, the win ome girls, the bewltching, en- trancing, adorable girls we ever Gaw—well, here she is! She is The Star's latest en- try in the nation-wide contest of beautiful telephone giris. The winner will have the ex- penses of herself and a com panion paid te Chicago by the Eesanay Film Co. There she will be the leading lady In a film play especially written for her. For her work she will receive $100. If successfu! as an actress, will, if he wishes, become a permanent member of the com- pany. The contest closes No- vember 21. if you do any long-distance telephone talking, most likely you've exchanged words with this dainty little lady, for she Is a long-distance operator, Her voice Ip as eweet as her counte- nance, and that’s going some. Her name? Miss Blanche Mid. @eton, 1512 Summit av., Beau- mont apartments. by Jobless! C. J, Weber, a of the unemploy: ference heid Thureday by the Central Council of joclal Agencies committee appointed Wednesday night to aid the un- employed, told the committee violence would result uniess something is soon done for the relief of married men who can- sentative it a con- American Flag WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Explanations from Am- © bassador Morgenthau, American ive at Con- representati stantinople, and from Capt. Decker of the United States cruiser T. ing the Smyrna incident of the — firing by a Turkish shore fort on the Tennessee's launch, were still awaited at the state and navy departments to- day. It was announced in President Wilson’s behalf that the administration would not permit this try to, be- come involved in war through a clash with Tu ’ In official circles it was generally expected the Turkish government would refuse to uphold the Sm military auw- | thorities, even if the latter should prove t. i More than this, much reliance was placed on the in- fluence of Germany, which is dominant in Turkey, and on the |friendliest terms with the United States. | The state department is worried over the safety of the the state militia to handle the sit | American consulate at Smyrna. uation, once the men get started.” | Secretary Daniels said he thought the Tennessee was Web protested the commit 7 s : (pe oi Boperate the Hotel De . Ui, f, ‘ \ j seill at Chios. : Gink. It will only mean the flock } ing to this city of hundreds of OFFICERS 0 | ATLANTA, Ga. Nov. 19—Seat- | Itinerants for the winter, he told | tle was chosen today by the Wom- them Miss Virginia McMechen, whose attention Weber has called to scores of families in dire need, sub- WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—A committee appointed by the [en's Christian Temperance Union, American Federation of Labor (in convention here for its 1915 convention in Philadelphia | meeting place. atantiated his statement that the plight of many Is indeed desperate. The Hotel De Gink will get its }food supplies by furnishing free composed of President White of the United Mine Workers of America, Vice _— President Hay ind Secretary Green, }labor to the commission houses called at the White House to- in return for eatables. The com- mittee will provide the telephones and electric lights. day and presented a resolution adopted by the convention, ask- ing President Wilson to take not get work, and whose fam- Iles, he sald, are hungry. Weber addressed the conference efter the committee had made plana for the upkeep of the Hotel De Gink, where single men are housed. EGR Bi Ps 6 8A SE ALAND a AAR 2: Weber's visite to the city coun ef] and county commissioners have been practically barren of result, eo sald. “The men are getting more hun-/ Exponents ary every day,” he must have food, and we to get it. ard for said. “Wel of the new “walk” re going | style of dancing were due to @0 to the mat Thursday after- foon with Police Lieut. Charles Dolphin before Police Chief Loule Lang. The trouble rose when the police it refused a permit to the elite Bachelors’ Dancing club, on recommendation of Lieut. Dol- phin, who said the Barbary Coast bunny huggers would hang their at one of the Bach- days we could polka a hundred yards while they are wriggling ten The fate of the winter's dancing season of a number of clubs is banging in the balance. If Dolphin makes his argument stick with the chief, the clubs’ per- mits will be refused, or issued only on the understanding that the new dances be barred. } RUSSIAN PORT The Bachelors and members of other dancing organizations ques- tion the judgment of Dolphin as a censor of modern dances. “This Dolphin person,” sald one of the dancing men to The Star, “talks like a Virginia reel was an LONDON, Nov. 19.—News of invention of the devil.” “iim fgainat thin watt of ane. INU pom y Tamas TO FIGHT FAKE ADS ing with a combination half-Nel-|of the Geramn fon and hammeriock hold on a| was accepted here today as ac- girl.” comes back Dolphin. “It| counting for the departure Tues- Pine ah ant Wed | makes my hair stand on end to see _| members of th club Wednes- boys and girls going over the floor |“*Y *rom pom see o ie _ |day noon he will enforce the law| : ‘ By Fred L. Boalt no close together a piece of tissue | San naval forces in Finnish wa-| against fake advertising and, with) (THE STAR has asked important people, all over the United States, this question: paper between them would be! ters, apparently with a view to tak-/the club's co-operation, the adver-| “Ghall ‘Lincle Sain Haves a lareer array ane Wave?” S, s s 4 squeezed to death. In my dancing ing the enemy ltising evils can easily be removed J 1 é ; A symposium of their answers will be printed tomorrow. The editor has asked me to write a foreword for today’s paper announcing the symposium, and this I am very glad to do as it gives me an opportunity to set isterial Federation. ¢ myself right before a good many home folks who have got the notion, somehow, - | The convention will bring ap- that lam a dangerous and turbulent fellow. described conditions in| Seas.” 1. eee Colorado and expressed the opin- ton that only federal receivership MEW IMPORT RECORD would solve the problem. He declared the mihers had com- Another import record was plied with the orders of federal|made by Seattle in October when troops to surrender their arms, |the total was $7,411,997, or $1,200,- but that the operators still retain- |705 in excess of the best previous ed their rifles and ammunition, and| month. Seattle also gained $439, were arming strike-breakers and | 949 in exports in October over Sej guards. tember, with a total of $1,864,986, HOW S. E.CO. CARES FOR ITS EMPLOYES} Ing them any explanation. Most of the discharged men belong to the Order of Rallway Ent- ployes. They believe the company thinks this order is the nucle: at | least, of a union organization. They think that is why they were fired, | The company is off on the wrong foot im this respect, they declare, fas the order is purely fratern They say they were dismi planation. The company has for years dealt summarily with any symptoms of unionism in the ranks of its employes. Any man talking unionism too loudly found himself minus his job. Discharged employes object,1 too, to the cold-blooded manner In which the company performs the ceremony. There are bulletin boards at the car barns. On these boards appears daily a list of names, Over the names is a curt explanation: “THESE MEN DISCHARGED.” That is all. No explanation. Just—discharged. The “fired forty” say the company is discharging men, who, by long service, have worked their wage up to 39 cents an hour, and is sub- stituting 25-cents-an-hour ment in their pla David D, Henderson, superintendent of sportation for the com. — pany, was asked about it by The Star. % “I know nothing at all about the matter,” he sald. The men say Henderson is the one who fired them, Prosecutorelect Lundin told the Obtaining the convention for Seattle is the work of Mrs. Marga }. Platt, state presi- dent of the W. C. T. U., who went to the conven- WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED | TOLD THE Boss THAT SOME BOOB WAS WAITING ‘TO SEE WIM, AND WHEN He ASKED ME WHAT THE GUY LOOKED Like. r—— 1 SAID, “AN ESCAPED | CONVICT man.” Another asked the editor to meena gin the gov’mint.” Still another sus- EMBARRASSED TODAY AT mericans. it Isn't import. If, | want to say that my ancestors, “on both sides of ." came to America the 17th century; that one of my maternal ancestors was “Mad” Gen. Wooster of Revolutionary fame; that a great-uncle of mine was killed in battle in the War of the Rebel.| lion; that my father fought through that war as an officer in the Union army, and was thrice mentioned | in dispatches for “distinguished bravery in action”; and, finally, that | myself fought valiantly, for seven months, on the sands of Tampa, Fia., against overwhelming hordes of files, mosquitoes, centipedes, malaria, typhoid, dysentery and embalmed beef, during our unpleasantness with Spain, we toe pected | was | w | If there is anything In heredity, then, | ought to be a “milltarist.” But I’m not. That is, I'm not a | “militarist” In the sense that | want to see every third American strutting around in a uniform and de- | elaring that America can lick the world! | While | do not doubt that we could, | do not’see why we should want to lick the world, ‘18 FULL OF SOME PRETTY GOOD FOLKS WHO NEVER DID ME ANY HARM. | This, it seeme to me, is the wrong time for the militarist to try to make us believe that a big army and a big navy are necessary to keep the peace between this nation and its rivals. Europe, with big armies and navies, is torn with war, We, with a smallish, but efficient, navy and army, are tranquil and at peace with the world. eee ee THE WORLD We are lucky—we Americans, We have a big country. We not overcrowded, as Europe Is. do not rub elbows with touchy, jealous, suspicious neighbore. We are lsolated, geographically. not territorially ambitious. Being sufficient unto ourselves, we mind our own business. We do not seek a quarrel with any nation. And if any nation seeks a quarrel with us—well, the in- ‘s will have a long way to come a big Job when they get here! 1 remember that t lary attaches from Europe who came to this country to our troops which | were to fight the Spani id of the volunteers that, man for man, they had never seen finer sol in | any of the standing armies abroad. *-. The citizen soldier is the best soldier. He is liable to be more Intelligent. And no one can deny that a patriotic volunteer is better than an unwilling conscript. oe eee We pel ITHIN the last four days the street car company has summarily EVERY TIME You oPEn Your. Mourn You PUT YouR Foor IN Tom | BELIEVE Nou HAVE THE | | vad Foot AND | MAN THAT WAS WATING WAS THE BO6S” BROTHER. PROM DENVER. without any notice and without ex- | The game of “military diplomacy,” as It is played in Europe, and as some men would like to see it | played in America, is, it seems to me, a dangerous and stupid game. |" “The essence of the game is that, in the event of a dispute which has brought about “unfriendly rela- tions,” if you bluff hard enough the other fellow will back water rather than risk “the far-reaching and die- astrous consequences” of war. | Well, Servia bluffed, and Austria called the bluff. Austria bluffed, and Russia called the bluff, bluffed, and the kaiser called the bluff. France, Great Britain, little Belgium, Turkey—practically all Europe has b flict. ‘And what are they fighting about? Whose power? Not Ivan's, Not 'Enry's. Not Pierre's, 'Enry and Pierre are on the firing line, fighting and dying, because they want to or bedi r, a king or a Czar may hold “the balance of power” in a mailed fist, the views of our eminent militarists, | do not believe Americans will Russia “The balance of power!” een dragged Into the con-| stupid game, and, wh: ever want to play it.