The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1915, Page 1

oe B does not, the real facts should be| tained. | ascertained, As to the jitney bus! er ne that the} ditt. Judge Fullerton denies that \ A woman reader has sent a for the d this girl, who letter to the editor, discussing ied to say honor the problem presented in the sut The A whether tt % would to this cide last Sunday of a wonan who nan's secret, of to re had loved not wisely, but too veal entity, and cau is well wite ldren shame and i The Star announced that it *Uffering ‘ , i The woman reader who has { would not make public the name written ue says. we have the of the married men responsible typical man’s viewpoint. St Are You Going to Move? F YOU move, telephone The Star's Circulatior Department, Main 400, and our carrier boy will see hat. you do not miss a single copy of The Star. .Remember the number, Main 9400. COURT KILLS JITNEY BILL | REFERENDUM NowPlantoFightValidity of Law; Fight on Renick Bill Also Blocked; Bradford Denounces Decision. OLYMPIA, April 23— | By arguing that the Ren- ick bill, VOL health, safety, or oeace. In the jitney bus bill, Judge Hol comb, who wrote the decision, said which prevents it came within the puble safety transfer of one city fund och a 2? as ‘ aad : he fact that no {nmediate to another, is a measure (yt ancy wan felt by the legisla which concerns the pub- ture when the bill Itself specified lic health, and that the jit- that the law was not to go Into ney bus bill was a law *ffect. until April 10 meant noth ing, the court declared. on the day it passed the legislature in March in spite of the fact that it was not to go into effect until April 10, the supreme court, by a decision of 8 to 1, yesterday knocked out the Fight of the people to put either of these meas- ures to a referendum vote. | The emergency clauses in both cases were sus- Became Law Immediately The bill, the opinion reads, be- came law immediately {in March, the legislature merely allowing the | Jitmey bas men a month of grace to meet the changed conditions. | Criticises Decision Both the jitney bus and the Ren ick bill were sharply criticised by Judge Fullerton, who wrote the only dissenting opinion. | He says that since the court has} taken upon Itself to decide when} an emergency exists and when it/ emergency Clauses in the fish code, | ¢ven attempts the highway budget. and the appro- | safety priation bills, were valid. The fish “It does not limit the number of | code fs not subject to referendum | passengers or attempt anything for! 9 to regulate public o'clock, Mre. Rebecen Littlefield, She ed to a woman—questions more writer |, more basio~ “WILL IT DO SOCIETY ANY it fair to the wife to allow fetelele) TO AVENGE HER to live, unwarned, with a DEATH AND BREAK UP AN OTHER FAMILY, OR WILL, IT NoTr’ “This question concluding your article is wholly from the man's ndooint, “Other questions are suggest man #0 cruel, 80 false, #0 selfish as this man appeara to be, to, by him, breed his kind? “Ie she physically safe, living with a wande “Is it fair to his children to al low them to go Into the world UMF 18 NO. 50. SEATTLE, WASH., A FRIDAY, APRIL 23, ° ° ONAN NAA AAAARAANAAA ARANDA RPA APPA APP PPP DPD PPP PPP PPD PP PPP DPD RPA OMAN SAYS FAMILY OUGHT TO KNOW OF MARRIED MAN'S SIN | unwarned of their inherited own eyes by the innocent hands ones? “Man should not avenge. High weaknesses? of their wives and chiidren? “You lose the point all along heaven has ordained that he who 8 it fair to society not to give “Does It give them the chance the way, It seems to me sins shall suffer, But other them a chance to fight this in. to see their ignominy and so, “IF THE CASE 18 AS OUT. women, his wife, his children, heritance? loathing it, leave it? LINED BY THE ARTICLE “Ie it fair to the women who in “Why should a sex sin of a MENTIONED, THE MAN TOOK common cruelty the future may come innocently man always be hidden from his into his net, believing him are wife and children by pitying able man? men, while other sin@ are so sit fair to men to cover their Iniquities even from their quickly uncovered to the world with no thought of the home A> ONE CENT 2%," iW & 1915. Did You Ever Hear the Story About the IE supreme court of Washington, by find- ing that the Renick bill and the jitney bill are “emergency” measures and therefore not subject to the referendum, has taken from the people of this state the right of self-govern- ment. If the judges, by their sophistries, can read into a legislative measure.a “public emergency” which in fact does not oe, as they have done in the Renick bill and the jitney bill, and so debar the people from their referendum rights, then they can, if they wish, find all future legislation “emerg- ency” legislation, and the people can have no voice in the making of their own laws. IF THIS BE SO—AND IT IS SO!--THEN TO REFER TO “THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE” IS BUT TO PERPETRATE A BITTER AND IRONICAL JOKE. seer UT of the flood of judicial opinion poured forth from Olympia, one big fact stands out plain: WHERE THE PEOPLE SHOW AN ACTIVE DEMAND FOR THE REFERENDUM ON ANY MEASURE, THEY ARE DENIED THE PRIV- ILEGE. WHERE THE PEOPLE DON’T CARE A RAP FOR THE REFERENDUM, THE JUDGES GRANT THEM THE PRIVILEGE. The McArdle land bill was a political bill, in- volving a petty fight between a democratic governor and a republican legislature for the control of the land board. The legislature injected into the measure the emergency clause in order that it might go into effect immediately. The supreme court held that the people's right to the referendum cannot be forestalled by a fake emergency clause. But the people do not want to invoke the refer- ~endum.on a question so piffling asthe McArdle. bill. AND E JUDGES KNOW IT! | to which only members /|tion of petitions. as to any clauses involving rev-| the safety of the public,” he says. | 3 | “On the contrary,” he sald, “the enues, but otherwise the emer-| He points out that instead of!" good standing, baving their) | ot oe Dinitery ned more vie gency clause is not effective, the| creating public safety, instead of April cards, will be admitted. The) oisiy than ever on the bills the bill | requires bonds of drivers top: court held. Dreadful Danger From Sewers | preventing injury, merely | come HELEN, GET Your | HAT ON -''M GoInG TO } THE Big Du \Tane You To THE BALL IN HIS METT \ sae - HURRY NOW i Fiero?! ¢ purpose of the meeting Is to make further plans to provide for bonds Loon - Loow- WAS OUT THERE IN LEFT which we are allowed to refer to the people. It {s more urgent than HE DRroppep ref B HAD IT RIGHT S~1wisHt i “8 i Careless Oyster? The people DO want to use the referendum on the Renick bill and the jitney bill—~AND THE JUDGES KNOW THAT, TOO! B* SPECIOUS and tistaadiing argument, the judges find “emergencies.” In the Renick bill, for example, they find that, if it is permitted in cities of the first class to trans- fer money from one fund to another, money which ought to be spent for a sewer might be spent for something else, and, for lack of a sewer, an epidemic might spread among the people. Therefore, the Renick bill has to do with the public health and is an emergency measure. In all seriousness, of the careless oyster. that it left its shell open. this reasoning reminds us The oyster was so careless A grain of sand got inside the shell. A pearl was formed. A diver found the pearl. A thief stole it. Another thief slew him for the pearl, and paid the penalty for his crime on the gallows. Therefore, we need a bill which would make it a felony for oysters to be careless. OW, here is the point: Sign the referendum petitions in the few cases the supreme court has not denied you. Sign them, if only to protest against the anti-refer- endum decisions of your dictators in Olympia. / And then remember this: | YOU CAN ELIMINATE ALL THESE DIF- | FICULTIES BY ELECTING A LEGISLATURE NEXT TIME THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE | RIGHT TO INITIATE CONSTITUTIONAL | } AMENDMENTS. THE SUPREME COURT IS SUPREME NOW-—THE BOSS OF THE PEOPLE. WHEN THE owing” GET A CHANCE TO Sa ie Be BO BE BO NSTITUTION, —F WHAT KIND OF MILK DO Public interest was centered on | tho#e who have been Injured }for fitney bus mer ever now to demonstrate that the the jitney bus and Renick bills, the Chadwick Tries to Explain President of the Council Oliver people demand the power of refer tion measures being only| Judge Fullerton’s opinton, com-|T, Erickson, who is at the head of endum appropria 3 it to officials and those| menting on the Inconsistency of|the Washington State Referendum eferendum headquarters are lo- fi of intefest to officta d tf the | ist G ashington 8 ' Ref head: 1 us 2 who sell supplies to the state. the supreme court with reference |jeague, Friday dee lared —there| cated at 223 Railway Exchange! Gyy ptealth Commissioner Me-,sold in Seattle miik users) In the decisions handed down to-| to the McArdle land board bill, re-| would no letup in the etre ula {building 7 "ew, ‘ ave the @ matters in hance day on the jitney and Renick bills, /celved a sharp reply from Judge) Bride is fully prepared to give themselves of the the supreme court plays merry-go- | Chadwick | ! ituberculin test to any cows whore | sia waarg of their milk supply round with its previous decision tn n the land board case, the court | mitk is distributed in Seattle. With sufficient public nang the land board case. held - thet Bo: sake gegen But be has no power to compel the dairymen will not care to wait In that case the court held that| clauses will be upheld. for the peo cote 1 ‘ " n law actuslly di them .-™) fake emergencies can be creat-| ple’s right to a rae wal bn must) “This decision so effectually kills cision on the Renick Dill such tests. Public sentim mcM® ito obtain the proper tests of their €1 by the legislature. not be lightly thrust aside. the referendum on bills to which Bradford says the Renick de|can make the dairyman elther pas: (0. ; , | Dodging al! around that de- | In the present cases, this post" i cision reverses the McArdle land u bmit his cows, — j , in ebitrarily attach teurize his milk or submit his Cows) py cating up Main 8300. milk 4 cision, the court argues that [tion seems to have undergone a the legislature may a board case and adds that the cor alling up Mair milk in the Renick bill presents a real [complete reversal, according to an emergency clause, that even {ts poration counsel's office “cannot © the test. __ |spection departr Seattle emergency, because some day | Judge Fullerton. host, {f any, will be so ethereal in yield assent either to the reason-| As only 50 per cent of the milk resident can {nform himself or her some city might want to build In answer to this. Judge Chad- cyaracter that common mortals will ing or to the conclusion in the distributed in Seattle is made safe self as to whether a particular dairy @ sewer, and mohey Intended | wick says Judge Fullerton does not) 0 ht on to discern it Reniok deciiion from tuberculosis thru pasteuriza- sells pasteurized milk—which safe for that purpese may be tem- | understand the land board case. So declares Corporation Counsel He also says that a petition for! tion, Commissioner McBride has a guards it against tuberculosis—or porarily loaned to some other | While the court holds the (pn vdrord in a letter to the council, a rehearing would be a waste of|large Job on his hands to secure has had its cows tested and found city fund. | emergency clause in the jitney 7 ve “ tests for tuberculosis on the remain- free of tuberculosis germs y 9 referring to the supreme court de- energy and time at Judge Ellis, who wrote bill is valid, it specifically ing 50 per cent If you call up the milk inspection the decision, therefore con- states that the validity of the Ready for Applicants department do not ask the officials pee ee eee aoe | IB tenet? le net determined in t he is prepared for the task. | to dairy to you. tion of public health and comes | the present case. aie the regular force of the|T® cannot But if you within the right of the legisia- | A test as to the constitution- milk inspection division under Chief 8k about a certain dairy they can ture to create an emergency, | ality of the $2,500 bond for jit- a whew 4 anearhan, SOE vat I js meeting the depriving the people of the ref- ney drivers in cities of the —— ep ahene ly for the exam-|health requirements or not jum on the ground of “im- first class would have to come NEW YORK, April 23. Justice ~ Justice Hendricks set Thaw’s trial ¢rinaries are jt i erend: ar rs inations, They are Dr. C. H. Schultz, It's Up to Consumers Per prone yaren: 4° public sk “Ca lea Hendricks of the state supreme - say Stanchfield 1 for formerly with the agricultural de-| If Dr, McBride's bill becomes law 2 ohn Stanchfield, counsel for formerly wi I { aw, VITY CRIT CISED court today granted Harry K. Thaw...) 00! deck Mer pre cach s. trial partment at Washington,.D. C., and|the test cannot be enforced, but a trial by jury to determine his way juet what his client had been the Philippine islands; Dr. F, Smith | mil) xamined can fe kept out of Seattle | ‘i anting ev lied White, and T. O. Anders ' . = POLICE AC | Fane the first real victor oie a He said he . As Can you make tuberculin tests By the terms of a state law which “4 ‘ P ris is ne firs ‘ea! = victo " " e dairy en apply for goes into effect in June, owners of wi the announced intention of | miadineanors, nek commented. ta cen be Seka Ah Wi ikee (OE ia nt Tre w conld convince any 4 t a bag “oa 5+ tee oan rr aher os pS fact er ee putting on extra detail of police to| yresenc nt obtaining | ® ary that he was sane ° ne Star as McB | tavestigate which fitney drivers|warrants from the prosecuting at- legal procedure which has marked Fri the state to make the tests, and have obtained b is. Police @hief | torney his case since he w « can,” was the reply if the animale are und tubercular Friday came in f y 0 | 1 escape fro te day Dr. McBride's bill to they may be either quarantined or Lang Friday came in for severe| Violations of the fitney bus law (after his pe from SIGHT 2 ZEPPELINS On Monday Dr. } criticiam from jitney drivers and|are state and not police court; Although acquitted on a charge event the distribution of milk in| slaughtered, at the option of the attorneys cases. Drivers charge Lang with|of conspiracy on which he was LI AST s » by any dairy whose cows | owner It is pointed out that the police ‘showing extraordinary zeal !n en-|returned to New York state, it OFF ENG not been examined will be} This law, while an advance tn have no power to make arrests on forcing the law was held the original order com presented to the council the right direction, practically mitting him to Matteawan was Will Meet Dairymen leaves it with the dairymen them still in force and his release was LONDON, April 23—Two | 6. gtiurgme s macting will be|selves to be of any effect N Y MEN WILL AT TACK LAW age Ton tl Corpus procees| Zeppelins were sighted off the |neiq between the dairymen and Dr,| The most tmporcant step is that Th ashen’ 5 Justice He Northumbertand coast this aft- | McBride, when the ie es the yer public opin ay a A a trial by jury w r N orts have yet | bill and suggestions by the dairy- y inquiring as to the stan A test of the validity of the jit-jsult will be filed within a week, it dricks for a trial by jury was malities ber es bb Hs men will be discussed dard of the milk you buy and ney bus bond law. outside of the|is believed. Judge Moore has not the famous pr ae a eta been received of bombe being jt it expeditious as the council| by refusing to buy any but pas. mememeney clause. will be made by | vet de fc esa cage : he 1 through °°2PPed. and it Is believed the | 11. be it will be more than three| teurized milk, or milk from jitney drivers who have seceded | tack to pursue ond O ahaae corpus writ. would, ¢rulsers may be merely on an: |imonths before the measure can be-| cows that have been tested, from the Seattle Auto Transit as xt ge dlr gpd sesayh ge 9h | sted eter ‘tw the United! other reconnoitering expedi- |come law. In the meantime, im-| you can accomplish more than sociation. Thru their attorney,| ciation will hold a meetir in pe od Mace ped din rie re milk will to xome extent be| either state or city law can Judge William Hickman Moore, the | Press Club theatre ning at! en preme Chem os Ln ee * — ‘Tom, Who IS “THAT FELLOW PLAYING LEFT FIELD? NEVER MIND NEVER MIND The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ANDN, Be THIS WOMAN'S MONEY, DE BAUCHED HER, AND KILLED HER HE 16 THEN A LIBER TINE, A THIEF, A MURDER ER AND A COWARD “Every man who debauches a woman who is making any effort whatso@ver to be true, should be branded with the mark of Cain upon his brow.” { } all need protection from this too | IGHT EDITION: Weather Foreca: —Probably fair AND 1243 a m., EXAS SWEPT BY FLOOD AND — GALE:60DEAD © ‘People Are Seen Clinging to Homes Floating Down Raging Streams; Proper- ty Loss a Half Million. AUSTIN, Tex., April 23.—The militia was ordered ‘out here this afternoon to prevent looting in the sec- tions of the city swept by floods. Two houses bobbing on the surface of the flood waters crashed into a bridge today. Several victims |who had been trapped in the houses when the flood |came could be heard screaming piteously for help. There was danger of a big reservoir breaking. This is a new reservoir recently built here. Between 40 and 60 persons dead in Austin, and the loss is than million as the result of the flood and tor- nado which have swept Texas and Oklahoma. Gra fears are felt regard- ing the fate of San Antonio, which is completely isolated. Communication is interrupted and the damage in that part of the state is not known. Basing their belief on the ex. perience of previous flocds, the authorities today express rm, The rainfall in Austin reached the proportions of a cloudburst during the night. Nire inches of water fell dur- ing a period of six hours, _!t is still raining today. HORSEWHIPS A MAN; HE SUES HER FOR ‘OR $50,000; Rivers are swollen, running in some places more than a mile wide. Big houses, some with people |clinging to them, shouting for help, |have been seen floating down the |raging streams. | All the low lands are inundated and scores of villages are partly (under water. More losses are ex- pected. Every creek and brook jis out of its banks. | Everywhere the carcasses of dead animals float in the streame The fury of the cyclone was + jterrific. It is reported the wind ripped ears of corn out of the husks. At Childress, Texas, it tore the feathers off a flock of | chickens. | Wynnwood, Okla, and Knox peounty, Tex., reported terrific tor- gr damage. Dallas and Fort Worth are | without gas as a result of the |storm. These cities are depend- ent almost entirely on natural |gas for fuel and prospects for repairing the breaks in the iains are very indefinite. For 12 hours the firemen and police of Austin have been on con- stant duty in the inundated dis- tricts Sceres of imperiled women and children clinging for safety to the branches of trees or perched upon j the roofs of houses were rescued during the night Organize Relief Work Firemen freely risked their lives and a score narrowly escaped being swept to death | So far as known Pipeman Thos. {Quinn is the only fireman who perished, however. He had aided | Some women marooned on a house- |top when he plunged into the flood. Relief committees have been or- ganized in all parts of Austin and these are taking charge of the work of aiding the distressed. Trains Are Marooned Lightning struck the main Plerce- | Fordyce oil warehouse here, and the |ruins were still in flames early to- Mrs. Helen Faust LOS 3 » Cal, April 23.—|day. The loss is estimated at $125,- Mrs. Helen Faust, wife of a former|000. Much minor damage has been employe of @ local paper, may have| done here by lightning to pay thousands of dollars for the| Ten passenger and 14 freight satisfaction of having horsewhipped/trains were marooned between Erich E. Kurths, prominent pub-|Chickasaw and El Reno, as the lisher and business man, whom she! floods had swept away many acc of attacking her cheracter,| bridges and rendered others un- Kurths filed a $50,000 damage| safe suit against her | At Taylor 150,000 barrels of The lashing was administered to! stored of! were hit by lightning and Kurths in his office, after Mrs. fired. Rain continued to fall today Faust had, according to her deolare in torrents tion, confronted him with an a leged signed transcript of the ei DENMARK GIVES. ments she regurded Jefamatory He would not give me a satis WOMEN TRE VOTE factory answer,” she explained, “so I struck him across. the face with aj | COPEN April whip and kept others from inter-| versal s il hencefo fering by showing them a revolver| vail in Denmark as a result of ac lin my hand (tion taken today by parliament Today--Newsy, Interesting, Profitable Ads--a Big Assortment the intending Saturday shopper, The Star presents today an almost infinite variety of helpful and money-saving hints, in the advertising columns. Food, furniture, clothing, dry goods, children’s wear, hats, millinery, shoes—no matter what you intend to buy tomorrow you'll find. something of interest about it in the ads today. And in most cases the price quoted will be one that means a big saving you, Seattle's livest and most up-to-date mer- cantile institutions have their best offerings for Sat- urday’s selling in The Star today. Don’t fail to read them, and read them thoroughly. For to