The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1914, Page 1

GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION 90,000 COPIES DAILY VOLUME 16, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DE iC, 1914, 99 . ONE CENT The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News PAINS AND oN NEWS STANDS, AS EDITION _ WEATHER FORECAST—Rain TIDES AT SEATILE f low Kias a 10.0 1 O21 p. ms Ath an tt 12:15 ym, 12.0 00 | The Star Suggests a New Year’s Resolution to Judge Burke and the Gentlemen of the Chamber of Commerce RENTS are too high in Seattle’s business district. If Seattle’s hopes for future greatness in indus- trial and commercial activity are to be realized; if capi- tal is to be invested here; if new enterprises are to be started; if the city is to geow—RENTS MUST BE- COME REASONABLE. And it must be done by the land- lords themselves. It is in their power to help or to hinder. the city’s growth. It is in their power to continue despoiling the merchants, so as to make legitimate business a hazard- ous venture, or to give legitimate enterprises that en- couragement which makes for permanent upbuilding. Not all landlords in downtown Seattle are greedy vultures. If those who honestly want the city to prosper Judge Burke, landlord, and presl- dent of the Chamber of Commerce. will take the initiative, they can compel a reasonable condition of renta’ . Instead of themselves following the pace of the greedy land- lord, they can compel the latter to follow them. Here is opportunity for real civic service. It just the sort of endeavor which should appeal to such a leading citizen as Judge Thomas Burke. What a chance for starting the new year right! What an opportunity for a New Year resolution that would truly make the heart of Seattle glad. WHAT A HELP TO THE CITY IF SECOND AVE. LANDLORDS, MOVED BY A SPIRIT OF TRUE CIVIC PATRIOTISM, WOULD RESOLVE TO REDUCE RENTS FOR THE YEAR OF 1915! Judge Burke is the very man to take the initiative. SHALL CITY LOSE [Wilt SuBMiT ITS PLAYFIELDS? Shall Seattle economize in dollars at the expense of the health of ‘Two members of the park board, former Councilman Frank P. Mul bee Richard M. Kinnear, rich land owner, would abolish the Seattie | passed a resolution to submit to ®| vetms. system altogether. | | council, | He is himself a: Second NEW RENTON DEAL TO VOTE By a vote of six BRIDE A to three, the meeting in committee of | f the whole Tuesday morning, direct vote of the people at the |, ™ March election the offer of the Se Opposed to Mullen and Kinnear are Otto Roselesf, president of the | attie, Renton & Southern receivers and Erastus Brainerd. The fifth member, George E. Lamping, is | to sell the line for $1,500,000 with indecision. | Wednesday the board will prepare its budget _ It will act then upon a motion made by Mullen and seconded by to discharge two employes of each field. This would mean that _ the field directors, both men and women, would have to go. , . Mullen and Kinnear regard piayfields as frilis and feathers Roseleaf and Brainerd look upon the yields as easentiol to the health and proper development of growing children. Mullen and Kinnear say: “Let the janitors run the fields.” Roseleat and Brainerd look upon the playfields as essential to the Mullen and Kinnear say: “We must economize.” Roseleaf and Brainerd answer: “Good! But leave the playfields 5 Probably no city in America of its size has a finer park system than " Beattie. Seattle playfields are the pattern for fields in other cities > Mullen and Kinnear, friends of the playfields fcar, are planning to get rid of the playfields entirely, as they admit they are out of sympathy with the movement. “A tad,” says Kinnear. x igang” of “bad” boys. a Out in Baliard ther _ selves “The Dynamite : The public school teachers of Ballard have set themselves the diffi- eult task of molding “The Dynamiters” so that they will some day be | useful citizens. 4 “The Dynamiters” enjoy the piayfields. They also, alas! enjoy cig- arettes and deviltry. Piayficids make strong bodies and alert minds. | Cigarettes and deviitry make stunted bodies and dull minds. . ‘The case of “The Dynamiters” was brought to the attention of Kin- ad 'e They call them- “A police problem,” he said. “But,” an anxious teacher pointed out, failed. Every one of ‘The Dynamiters’ has “it is not a park problem,’ id Kin “not belong to any “gang.” “the police have tried and Mullen and Kinnear would cut the playfield salaries 20 per cent At the last meeting they favored a resolution, which carried, to close the field houses during the three months of summer. Now they would discharge competent physical instructors and leave this important work ‘to school janitorg! $ As Lamping seems to hold the deciding vote, and as he believes the playfield system to be good.and necessary, while ot the same time be favors economy, it may be that a compromise will be effectéd at Wed ‘jeaday’s meeting, and that the board will vote to discharge one director, Instead of two, of each field. . One hundred men and women will be present Wednesday afternoon at the park board meeting, to protest against economizing at the ex pense of the playfields. The petition in boots was organized by the Wom federation. SEATTLE SUN QUITS The Seattie Sun, in its issue this/days, there was an attempt made afternoon, announces its retire- to reorganize on a co-operative issus is the last. basis, the employes to take charge been in the hands of the paper. This, however, fall @ receiver for a week. it was ed to materialize. Receiver Wea tablished in February, 1913. ton asked for bids on the plant, but Financial difficulties ended the jfailed to secure any substantial ‘s career. For the past few ‘offers. | Councilmen Erickson, Marble |W and Lundy voted against the reso lution. ree Final action will be taken at a |close special meeting of the council | next Tuesday, when the formal draft of the recetvers’ proposal will be presented Under the terme of the offer, the city will have to pay the Kenton | company $200,000 {n utility bonds at once. The remainder is to t paid 20 per cent of the total re- ceipts of the railway annually for a period of 28 years, or for a less! reached. If, at the end of 28 years, the total of $1,500,000 Is not reached, then the road is to belong to the city anyhow The recetvers also agree to re fund $15,000 per annum to the city out of 20 per cent réceipta for 10 years and 20,000 for the next eight years, This refund is to help the city pay the operating ex-| penses of the road, as it is general. | ly conceded the operation will coat over 80 per cent of the total re-| coipts ‘lives of most women love is a trag: While the price demanded Is too| edy; in mine it was a.cataclysm! high,” declared Councilman Hes-| Arthur Little, my husband, was a keth, “I voted for the resolution | ¢ in the drug atore where I because {t may be worth while to| yed to get my lunches, 1 was at yleld a point in order to settle the| tracted to him at first by his defer. question and carry out our munic-| ential manner to all women whom ipal ownership program |he waited upon I think the attraction was mutual because {t was not long before he spoke to me, I felt as though 1] knew him, because day after day I Seattle department BY ALMA BOONE LITTLE PART Il. | I have come to believe that in the! Steamer Limon and schooner Dor. othy Palmer, in collision off Cape Cod, arrive #:. sly at Boston —] ave. landlord. He owns two fine buildings—the Burke block and the Empire building. Judge Burke has been a square landlord. He has not been of the grasp- ing type. There undoubtedly have been times when he even extended a helping hand to tenants. Rents in his buildings have not been low, by any means, bui they have been fair compared to rents demanded by other landlords. Judge Burke is especially qualified to initiate a movement such as this. Judge Burke is president of the Chamber of Commerce. is a member of that organization. The chamber has been spending all kinds of money in the past on pamphlets and other advertisements of Seattle to tell folks in the East of the great oppor- tunities aw ing them here. Every landlord on Second ave. What avails it to spend thousands of dollars in the East to induce people to invest money here when opportunity to realize on their in- vestments is curtailed by extortionate rentals? Here is big work cut out for the Chamber of Commerce—to provide reason- able locations for doing business in Seattle. ber, under the directing hand of Judge Burke, its president. It is peculiarly a work for the cham- For it is right in the Chamber of Commerce membership where the work must be done. Convince mem- bers of the chamber that rents must come down, and rents will come down. There never was a grander opportunity for the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle to exhibit true loyalty to the Seattle Spirit, true patriotism for this Queen City of the West. His friends have always lauded Judge Burke as one of Seattle’s most prominent and patriotic citizens. The Star has not agreed with Judge Burke in political matters. But it recognizes his great ability. On this question of obtaining a reasonable rental rate in Seattle, The Star knows of no man who could assume the leadership with greater assurance of suc- cess than Judge Burke. IS THIS YOUTHFUL NEGRESS? aw him there at lunch time. He found out where I lived and called me up on the telephone, but Mrs.| Was a good mother and she took quite as much care of me as she did of her own girls She said: “Aima, you must cquaintances very young, pretty; you | must go slowly. T took this counsel to myself, al: though {t almost broke my heart. I didn’t go to the drug store for | my lunches, but I was very lonely It didn't seem like God's free country to me any more. At the time I didn’t know why, but ft Just didn't 1 grew restless, and one half-holl-| day, because I had nothing better to do, 1 went over to a ball game and| (Continued on Page 7.) THE WAR TODAY RUSSIA—Germans gains in Poland; claim Slave, some in denial, |declared Warsaw no longer men- |aced and czar’s forces everywhere on offensive. FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Al- Nes report two-mile gain near Nieu- port and capture of trenches from Germans west of Apremont; ac- cording to German account a tion in extreme north unchanged. GERMANY—French, Paris account, advancing In Al and | Steinback Invested. AUSTRIA—Fightjng without ma- terial changes reported in Galicia; skirmishing renewed on Servian frontier. SURE E| HELLO TOM, ARE " RIGHT WITH | ‘To stop | | STORE To GeT FoR + ED, WILL You WAIT A MINUTE I'VE Gor IN THIS DRUG SOMETHING BOALT EATS SHARK FIN AT YUEN’S PARTY ° Goon Dip, consul in Seattle, | | the name out for Boalt | at the wedding banquet. \] -« By Fred L. Boalt Charley Yuen gave a party last night to celebrate the arrival of the United States immediately aft er the ceremony Now little Mrs. shark fins | IT am not good at describing the charms of women. 1! can only tell you that little Mrs. Yuen is very] his wife in Seat tle, Yuen and Yuen were ed three ears in china. Yuen, for business reasons, 33} had to hurry to | | Yuen has jo'ned AN him If you could see Mrs. Yuen in her party clothes you would under-| tand why her husband, rejoicing, | feels he must entertain his Chinese and American friends with cham- pagne and bird’s-nest soup a | pretty, very dainty and very shy— so shy that she hung her head when we boisterously drank her] health | The party was held at the Mil-| waukee hotel cafe, of which Char ley Yuen {s the proprietor ar) . | Now, there are types among the| Chinese which, when you scrut (Continued on Page 2) |dent declared, would be demanded. ENGLAND MUST PAY U.S. WAR DAMAGES WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— | public criticism in the United States — America intends, after the war is over, to hold England to a strict monetary account for violations of the rights of American shipping. This was made plain today by President Wilson in discuss- ing the dispatch sent to Eng- land yesterday by the United States, insisting on an early | improvement in the treatment | of American commerce. Financial restitution, the | holds the British policy as directly |responsible for the depression | many American industries. | “ee ENGLAND ANXIOUS ‘TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT LONDON, Dec. 29.—That the ‘British government would give the. ; most careful consideration to the Washington protest against the treatment of American commerce presi @ note sent to England, he said, arried no threat. It insisted mere- ly that England apply the same rules that she has heretofore 1 sisted on in times of war when her own trade was affected Will Demand Millions President Wilson explained the note summarized comprehen sively a series of complaints These proteste, he said, form the basis for demands for de & after the war. From his statement it was in ferred that the U. 8. intends to ask millions of dollars’ reparation Although the document containe¢ the strongest repres: tion yet made by the Unite »s to any of the belligerents, high government | officials professed today to believe t erious danger of a db ult te was cabled yesterday to A dor Page, and he will pre sent it to Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, today Blame England for Depression It gave warning that much feel ing had been and that public eral over “the ference with the le tr of the United States,” | The document pointed out that at the war office today, It was evident the Pnglish want d Americans to understand they were most anxious views of the Americans, avings bank, ins Star that certain facts concerning the MacPher- son-Grey Co, were not correctly reported in yesterday's issue, Greenleaf says the MacPher- son-Grey Co, had no lease for the premis: on Pike st. for merly oceupied by them: and that Greenleaf did not raise the rent, but that the merchants had asked for a reduction in their mer rent. When this was refused,.the MacPherson- Grey Co, moved out The Star does not misrepresent any facts fore glad to mak fon suggested by wish to and is » the cor- Mr. Green- THERES THE (ANSWER, AND WWE HAD "EM ON THERE FOR TWO BS) — DAYS 5 TELL ME TOM, HOW DO YoU MARRIED GUYS REMEMBER ALL THE THINGS You HAVE BRING to meet the — by King George's fleet was stated |