The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 1

| Their Master’s Voice appeals for “regulation,” unconventional about riding in the jitneys. But never a word about the fact that 5 cents now will buy an auto ride that a month ago would have cost $1 to $2.50! PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER | 59,000 COPIES DAILY MAYOR SHANK WILL TALK TO Enemy of Food Trust to Address’ Women at The Star’s After-| Breakfast Wednesday Matinee. | } Lew Shank projected his large and robust person into The Star of- (fice this morning, and busted our calm nity all to smithereens, You) 1 can’t be serene with Shank around. Shank is that turbulent feller who busted up the food trust of In- dianapolis, two years ago, when he was mayor of the Hoosier city. | He did it by going right out into the country, buying carloads of | Potatoes, applies, pears, onions and such, and selling them to the home foiks at a reasonable profit. The Western ave. of Indianapolis—we don't know the name of the etreet—was much shocked to think that anybody could be satisfied with &@ reasonable profit. Such men Shank are dangerous. The respectable and substantial element of indianapolis defeated Shank for re-election, having persuaded the proletariat that he was not, safe, and Shank just naturally drifted into vaudeville “Shank explained, “next to a newspaper, a vaudevilie | circuit has the largest circulation.” | Shank dropped in to talk over with us The Star’ fter-breakfast” the Empress theatre at 10:30 Wednesday morning. be free, and Shank will be the whole show. to tell housewives the grocery and meat bills are to hear Shank. He can tel! them how to get the They don't get it now. > BILLY SUNDAY TO TACKLE N.Y. PHILAELPHIA, Feb. “T— | denon | } in the Marble Fifth ave. denominations Collegiate ¢hurch, and 29th st., appointing a com- | mittee to meet him in this city | | “Billy” Sunday is going to New York “to make war on sin’s battlements in that city and drive the devil from his en- trenchments of booze and in- famy.” The evangelist said as much when he heard of the action of 400 New York ministers of ali CO-ED IN BAD AUTO SMASHUP Skidding on the wet pavements Flack, 1 1023 Sunday at Sist ave. S. and Day st.,/garet Hastings, who liv an automobile driven by Louis C. W. F. Plant Witherbee, 2510 Seventh ave. W., mag mar into an outbound Mt. Baker and urge him to conduct a re- vival in New York. “although | am perfectly well dated u can't slip b) he said, “I certainly the Modern Babylon Belmont ave. N.; Mar-| with Miss Flack; [45th st Mra. © jave., les unconsctous Sixth elty slightly hospital and may be fatally injured| J. Jones, 25, of Buck- ®# the result of an auto accident at K. Anderson, 1311 at the Minoan Pantees a Junior at the University |Second ave. and Pike st, at noon of Washington, was the most ser- |Monday. A. E. Burlock, Normandy fously injured. He sustained a frac- apartments, driver of the machine ture of the skull and severe cuts, Which ran over Mrs. Anderson. was and bruises about the body. He | arrested and is being held by the was reported in a serious condition | police pending the outcome of her this morning at the city hospital. | injuries The others injured are: Violet) At 1 o'clock, physicians at the Adams, 20, a student at the wnl-|city hospital reported Mrs. Ander. | versity, bruises and lacerations,|son in precarious condition. Her rendered unconscious; Katherine skull was fractured NAGGING WIVES GET THEIRS important was only -- “When a woman begins to nag, it| pantry, constitutes an fs worse than the hiss of hell.” | part in domestic diseontent, he . said. In this way, Rev. M. A. Matthews Hubbles did not escape un scored quarrelsome wives in a ser-| scathed. The trouble with most of them, Dr. Matthews said, was their will ingness to be nothing more than a meal ticket to Friend Wife. Such men are contemptible nonentities, be declared. mon on “The Husband's Duty—the Husband Is More. Than a Meal Ticket,” at the First Presbyterian church Sunday night The desire of modern women for a full wardrobe and a well-stocked and for protecting the traction company! The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— The United States supreme court announced today that it would grant a hearing out of regular order, in the c of Leo Frank, cpnvicted of the _murder of Mary P Phagan, an At- Sea digni the major part of the bills for the chamber i terrific slaughter of passengers these two veracious d Observe how they use their cartoonis' SEATTLE, The jitney bus inv: WASH., HOW LEW SHANK BROKE THE FOOD TRUST PRICES WHEN MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS potter L. wet an Old Auctioneer, Selling the People Potatoes in by Him to Break th e Potato Corner in Indjanapolis. LEO FRANK GETS REHEARING lanta, Ga., factory girl. The date of the hearing was set for Feb, 23. The request of attorneys for the defense that the hearing of arguments be set forward ‘was concurred in by the prose- cution. MONDAY and their “humorists’ IT's HARD SLEDDING QB Given Is That Institu- worn somewhat bordered by which «pread hospitable for adventurous children to climb into and dreamy FEBRUARY 14, 1915. MOTHER RYTHER’S NOTO.K.’D | |Chamber of Commerce Refuses} to Place Home on List of Approval tion Does Not Employ Outside Auditor By Mabel Abbott The charities indorsement committee of the Chamber of Commerce last Thursday refus- ed ite indorsement to Mother Ryther'’s Home, “because the home does not come up to the hygienic standard of the com mi and because the com mittee will not indorse any in stitution which will not furniah financial statements properly audited by some one outside its wn management.” “ee The windows of the living room of the Ryther Home look a rickety porch fo a broed lawn, bald in spots and trees, branches ancient fruit under. {patna what the action of the) charities indorsement committee | |means to the home. The 40 chil jdren had just finished dinner and | were swarming up and downstairs jin wild hunt for hats and coats nears of keys are yellow and cracked. leg of the fireplace grate is broken and propped up with a brick, The low rocking chair has been mend-| ed with wire and wooden braces Within the room, the inted. oor and threadbare nm speak of the daily wear and tear o many pairs of reckless feet veteran plano and organ bear the) and their One hard service, In this room, Mother Ryther, gaunt and work-worn, rustling starchily in the Sunday freshness of a blue calico wrapper and girt | with an enormous apron, sat down | |for @ moment yesterday (Continued “on . Page 2) GERMANS SCUTTLE U. S. SHIP SOOIALIST MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.— The sinking by German wa ships of the S. 8. Drummulr, owned by Hind, Rolph & Co., of San Francisco, wi reported here today in letters from J. C. Eagles, captain of the ship, who Is now at San Antonio, Ar- assert the Ger. hi and three colliers, commanded by Admiral Von Spee, scuttied the Drummuir on Dec. 6. | Satee by by All but two of the German ships were themselves sunk six days! The Drummuir sunk Admiral Sturdee's British | squadron off the Fatkiand Islands. be cause she flew the Hritish flag and | was of Canadian registry worth $75,000 and her $100,000 “The coal was taken out,” letter adds, “and the ship of everything of value ber 6, at noon, miles off shore and sunk my best to save the ship ing to Admiral Von Spee that was American property he destroying.” the looted On Decem she was towed six I tried | explain: | wa SENATE TALKFEST ON AGAIN re WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The publican filibuster against the go nv ernment ship purchase bill was re today, to order, when t aft sumed at 10 @ senate was called ™. he er being in recess from midnight Sat urday Both sides were confident. F publican members insisted a we more of filibustering would me Re ek an the bill had been talked to death They declared they were to continue the campaign final adjournment, and to block prepar WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED ed until all other legislation if necessary It is believed some are She was} cargo | | democrats in favor of dropping the mea- sure if the fillbuster endangers the| appropriation bills BOOST HOME INDUSTRIES VANCOUVE ing that a Feb 1 for contract blocks to be used in of a elty t Tacoma firm. ing in order to give the work plant pox OFF ICR. Learn-| wooden | construction viaduct had been sublet attempt 1s ade to annul the contract | to a local B. C. PARLIAMENT | WANDS BRITAIN JOLT VICTORIA, Feb, 1.—Deliver- Ing a speech In the legislature lasting more than two hours, Representati Place, a socia let, flayed the British govern- ment for its part in the Euro- pean war. H id the Belgian incident used England to take up arms was simply an excuse. He wanted the legisiature to go on record as opposing any annexation that may be pro- posed if the allies are vic torious. |\CITY OWNERSHIP} SAVES ’EM MONEY DULUTH, Feb. 1.—This city will buy its electric current from the Duluth Edison Co, hereafter for 6 cents a kilo- watt instead of 8 cents. The reduction follows a mu- nicipal ownership campaign in which the city submitted a proposition for building the first unit of a generating plant The company agreed to the cut rather than see the municipal- ity enter the field out over children to lie rough. The and ex-| ONE ' | ion has given another convincing demonstration of who really edits two Seattle newspapers. fied gentlemen who adorn many a Chamber of Commerce banquet board. Oh, no! Instead it is a little coterie of big bugs who pay If, and who apply the oil can liberally to the bearings of the subsidized press. es would make us believe the jitneys have brought about! in an effort to create the impression that there is something dangerous, or improper, or ON CENT ‘Damn That Man’ All Right for Girls LEVELAND, Feb. 1— ditionally, but official. ly. approved for co-eds’ use by no tess an authority than Charles F. Thwing, doctor of divinity and presi dent of Western Reserve university it happened in the Bible room of the College Women chapel, w Thwing was addr freshman Bible class. Girls, do you swear?” he a were some of " they confessed it is perfectly t swear at the girls quote Dr Thwing as saying. “I! think it is all right to say even ‘Damn. If some man did something terrible to you and you said ‘Damn man,’ that’s all right man should be damned.” MEN WHISK2 tn igndy assaallcheatel pete tomobile outside the M. Rich and R. L, Co., his Investigation According to the story the gtris, who are 20 and 2 spectively, the men, them once before. home in Harmon's auto the evening. early city limits, the girls say asked to be taken back home. ‘The car proceeded about they say, to a lonely | place Immediately upon their return to Sunday complained to arrests fol-| about 1 o'clock the girls and the town, a morning the police, lowed REAPPORTIONMENT Feb. 1 representative from county lative representation it to under a population basis cured the pledge of 5 bill McArdle and in 1913 counties was successful in in organizing the against King county representation in the leg GROWERS TO ORGANIZE WENATCHEE, Feb. 1 the next 10 days of all north Washington into units of the natchee North Central league. PHAINS NEWS STANDS, Se \Fifty Thousand Turks Are Massed for Desperate Dash Over Burning Desert Sands Into Egyptian Territory GIRLS AWAY IN AUTO; CAU CAUGHT. Accused of having foreibiy ae! Sith ‘hich bn OUSRTObE hain 40 tained two young women tn an au- city limits Sylves- ter, mechanics, are held at the city | on an open charge, while the | ed, and already outposts h prosecuting attorney is completing | told by who had met called at their When the auto shot north Sonn ere from Great Britain, which they Instead, they were physically re-| ‘The Territorial troops strained from leaving the machine wars Me gs miles farther from the city limits, unfrequented ATTEMPT IS KILLED OFF BY M’ARDLE what OLYMPIA, From appears to be authoritative source, it is learned that L. D. McArdle Jefferson which has twice the legis is entitled has se. 56 members of the house to kill a reapportionment 1911 cow other counties entitled to if rouge and now appears to have stified off reapportionment for the third time. The con vention of growers just concluded here asstires the organization withir rentra Growers’ It is not the two Note the Scrutinize their perfervid IGHT EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Rain TIDES AT SEATTLE High 4:00 mom, ted ft 442 pom, 126 ft 11:89 9, m., 11:64 p.m ANY La ft ARMY RISKING © ANNIHILATION INLONGMARCH England Masses Forces From India and Australian Territorials to Defend Suez Canal. ATHENS, Gre e, Jan. 17.— {ing directed by 54 German o' (By Bian bo re verge who obtained the sanction of muc iecussed an ‘ed, bu’ long-delayed attack-on Egypt |*OUnS Turk goveramens: oe has begun! Fifty thousand |laimed by the political oppositi Turks, Arabs and Bedovine are through the medium of eno massed in the Holy Land, ready | bribes paid the ten men of for a desperate dash across the goriryish cabinet! es Wilderness of Moses, 150 miles of parched desert, where, in the hot season, water is worth $5 an ounce! Perhaps even now this marvel- ous expedition, unique in world his- | tory, is on its dangerous merch over the hot sands of Et Tih, in the center of the Sinal peninsula, \gown. even in winter the sun beats n with equatorial intensity. Plan to Dam C With it go 8,000 camels, light and somal , eee 30 Heht steel pon- to bridge the Suez canal aPitnseeands of bags of concrete The impression prevails that @ non-success of the Caucasian car paign against the Russians, moved Germany to attempt the vasion of Egypt by Turks, with idea of drawing the allies’ tion away from the thinning ton line in Flanders. The invaders must bps ad cisive battle when their water ply {s exhausted and 150 miles 0 barren waste is at their backs a Rye foe at pogeat front. victory. Face Death on Desert Defeat or retreat means block Britain's artery to India. Whether this daring scheme will! to the burning sands to # Saturday night, Frank E. Harmon, | result in a military horror or in a| by thiret- testes literally be manager of the Harmon Motor Car | brilliant achievement remains for| orated under the cruel fesge Pe the next few weeks to show. The British garrisons the sun—the stupendous hor- ror of 50,000 men gone mad in) the face of destruction! Further, the Sinai peninsula fs a vast rockland, and that part of the: Bible giving the story of the chil dren of Israel and their 40 years in the wilderness under the leader ship of Moses, who procured manta from heaven and water by strik a rock, acquaint the reader wi this sterile country and the hard ships to be met in traversing fit. Slight camel tracks are the only things in the nature of roads, and these are few. Over any route the movement of jartillery would prove a tremendous task. alarm- ve been | placed far into the desert to warn | of the coming of the Young Turk hosts. Indian troops, bound for the bat- tlefields of Flanders, have been d tained in Egypt and are now firmly intrenched in the barren wastes to | the east of the canal with the Ter- have garrisoned the country since the regulars were taken to Europe. ing Exypt are almost wholly tralian Irish! Germans in Command The drive over the desert is be- ' SISTER JULIE ) Aus- | By Mary Boyle O'Reilly. Staff Correspondence. TER JULIE is one of the Is S ring the church troubles. “It appears that the good Lord would have us know more of His world, my sisters,” sald Sister Julie, and packed a prayer book, her Sunday habit and some linen into a shabby Gladstone bag La Patrie unprepared, without nurses or Red Repulsed at Mons, overwhelmed at Rheims, wounded soldiers of France lay untended where they fell. Fever, gangrene, lockjaw became evi- de:ie. Shame-facedly the minister of war invited the nun-nurses to return. « Six hours later the first contingent stood in the war office, calm, smiling—ready for in- stant duty “It appears that we may serve God and our country in this crisis,” said Sister Julie. “On the Marne? Certainly, monsieur; we thank you and go at once.” They went—and stayed, organizing their one-nurse hospitals just back of the battle front, For days the ding-dong of battle raged round the ruined, blameless villages f e For dork Slater Julie, alone and unprotect- ed in an ambulance station in a desert Miss Mary Boyle attended her helpless, shot-torn paslents ae tae O'Reilly maelstrom of war stormed about them Once Sister Julle found it necessary to don her fri apron, lock the door and go out and warn the Germa to turn his guns away from her hospital! But the'tide of war rolled back, The Germans were driven pell-mell from the Marne! The French soldiers came dashing through, Sister Julie had time merely té nod cheerfully at them through the window London, England, Jan. 16, 1915. 50,000 nuns of France exiled War found Cross equipment One day a glittering squadron of French cavalry clattered through the shell-swept street and stopped in front of Sister Julle’s ambulance station. “Sister,” announced the captain, “we are going to ask a favor, Will you permit that we parade past you?” Her quiet smile gave consent. The captain turned in the saddle to address his troop of horse. “My friends,” he said, “when we were here in August, we saw flames leap to the sky. You can now see what they did. Hut in this deserted village, in the midst of flames, under the hail of shells, ONE WOMAN REMAINED AT HER POST OF MERCY? That was Sister Julie. “The president of the republic is about to pin the Cross of Courage on her veil. Salute her! We are to have the honor of parading Before her. Young men, lok at her well, Soon you will again be under fire. When that time comes, think of her, that, like her, you may stick to your post.” He paused. They waited for the heroic nurse to speak “Why, bless you all, what else was | to do?” asked Sister Julie!