The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1915, Page 1

U. S. HAS TWO GOOD SOLDIERS, ANYWAY VOLUME 18. ‘NO. 157. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, 25, 1915 AUG, Mayor Gill, a word with you: BUCK TO THE COUNCIL. ALL THIS IS WRONG. IT IS A DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE PEOPLE.. IT IS JUST THE ONE It is not necessary to refer to your bitter past police history to explain why they expect this of you. The Seattle Star You are not facing this Lang case in the right way. You are showing a disposition to quibble and shift responsibility. AST EDITION H AVE you been noticing their war like tendencies, lately >—Mutt and ~~~~~~ WEATHER FORECAST—Falr Jeff, we mean; Bud Fisher's funny Th O ] P . S | Th D ° N - Me Nokes: how" they ‘dlblipe” nk : e On aper in Seattle at Dares to Print the News Opal iene trality today 4:04 a om, 129 ft. 10:88 a om, 26 ft ONE CEN AEWH BEANDS, be |GRAB BULL BY THE HORNS, HI! YOU ARE TRYING TO PASS THE SORT OF MISTAKE THE PEOPLE DO NOT EXPECT YOU TO MAKE AGAIN. The people expect that you, Hiram C. Gill, will meet a police wrong SQUARELY, BRAVELY AND DECISIVELY. ‘ Some other man in your position might be able to get out of this mixup by quibbling, by talking loudly of investigations and similar dodges, BUT YOU MUST UN- | DERSTAND THAT YOU CAN’T DO THIS. | The Star doesn’t think you want to. You are wise, Mayor Gill. political reasons don’t affect you because you know this isn’t so. You know the whole situation. x THERE ISN’T AN EXCUSE IN THE WORLD FOR YOU TO GO WRONG IN THIS CASE. | But there is a big opportunity for you to come thru for Seattle in the right way. 3 There is an opportunity for you to prove you are big enough to shoulder an unpleasant responsibility. j You appointed Louis M. Lang police chief. YOU CAN FIRE HIM. You know the charges against Why fuss about an investigation? These indiscretions consist of these specific offenses: 2. He went to this girl’s room in a downtown hotel at 2 4. He has tolerated unwarranted gambling conditions. didn’t show enough courage to face the music. He didn’t PECTS OF YOU. PRIVATE TREAT "=== eam “DISCUSSES WAR : By Fred L. Boalt i BUSINESS MEN’S TRAINING CAMP, AMERICAN LAKE, Aug. 25—Three men in khaki sat on army cots, in army tents, resting. SE They breathed heavily, for they were very tired. They iped their brows, for the day was sultry and their bodies, under the flannel shirts, were wet with sweat When they were rested somewhat, they talked of war peace, of preparedness and unpreparedness, of militar-| and peace at any price. What these three men and many others like them are ping is remarkable enough. What they are thinking and ing about the thing they are doing is more remarkable| Ml and more significant far than the movement itself Now, one of the three was Pri-;too clean. A day's growth of stub- Robert N, Stith. When not in| ble was on their chins. They did i, Private Stith is Dr. Stith, a) not look like a man of God, a man} ized authority on tubercu-|of science and a man of money | They looked Mike rough-neck| rookies. The khaki is a great leveler. j Khaki Makes 'Em Comrades It is not likely that Privates Stith, McCullough and Treat, under ordinary circumstances, would cross RENICK LAW | “NICKS. ROLL "OF TAXPAYER’ With just a less than $3,000,000 of the money lying idle in the ban draw. ing 2 per cent interest, the | city Wednesday issued $390, | 000 worth of warrants, draw. ing 5 per cent Interest, as the first step in tiding itself until, next y ttle | s it, gentile reader? ,000,000 of good, hard U. 8. coin lying in the banks. The banks are paying us 2 per cent for the use of it. BUT WE CAN'T TOUCH IT! Instead, we must borrow money from those same banks—that's } What issuing warrants means—and pay the banks 5 PER CENT for the use of their money! | The difference between cont and & per cent Is 3 per cent, | jor the amount of money we are jlosing. AND THE CAUSE I8 THE RENICK LAW, pasred by the last legislature, which prohibits the the city’s transferring money from | one fund to another. The legislators explained would stop “fund juggling | A representative of the Dexter | Horton bank was at the city hall bright and early Wednesday morn. ing, offering to take all the war rants in sight, at par, which means the bank will not discount them Other banks are indicating like tendencies Why shouldn't they? Five per cent isn’t to be sneezed at 2 per Another of the trio was Private W. McCullough. When not khaki, Private McCullough is Rev. McCullough, pastor of the hernacle Baptist church. The third men was Private Har- y Whitney Treat. When not in thaki, Private Treat is Multimil- aire Treat. Wash Their Own Dishes it was at the end of their first in camp. They had left the) of their homes, the familiar | ines of their offices. They had not siept well that night in camp. They had n at 5:15. They bad gone thru ip exercises” on an empty it READY TO WORK OW E. MARGINAL WAY, A resolution declaring the city ready to commence improvement of | Harry Whitney Treat, the Seattle multi-millionaire, and Capt, Jens East Marginal way will be present-| pugge of the Twenty-First Infantry. Treat, despite his millions, has al- ed at the next council meeting, fol jowing the appropriation of $174,000 | Teady proved himself a real fellow at the business and professional by the county commissioners for the | men’s military training camp. Capt, Bugge, assistant commander and purpose of t nd filling. ! senior instructor, is shown congratulating the Seattle capitalist at his This is the first time the city has gone ona warrant basis in 20 years—sinee 1896, In fact omach. They had breakfasted frugally washed their own dishes. Then had drilled and drilled and Famine added to distress of ma- rooned at Newport, Ark Treat's first | tent on being the first civilian in regulation uniform — 7 until noon and from, Local ch rs of! So lamerica will hold annual banquet] #ssignment was washing dishes, doubtless his first experience at the | 3,000 new strikers report q Now they were weary and none! Thursday night at Savoy. job. Bridgeport, Demand 8-hour day p at the Front (Copyright, 1916, by HL ©. UTT Would Certainly Be a Great Hel I LONG To BE AT THE FRONT WHERE | THE SHOT AND SHELL ARE FLYING. (Tis MUSIC TOMY FARS WHAT CARE I POR. GERMAN GAs BOMBS. T'D TAKE Mx TRUSTY RIFLE AND WALK INTO GAs BomBs LiKE SO MUCH CHAPR, DEATH HAS NO HORROR FOR ME Jerr, usten! were GON To wAR! we're H GONKA FIGHT! weIRE |] GONNA Figur THE GERMANS AAD PYENGE THE Lusirania! IF 1 SAW A GERMAN TD Tear HIM LIM FRom LiMB Goob! 1 DONT Care WHO WE FIGHT BuT 1 Love WAR Lang’s foolish alibi doesn’t mislead you because you know the inside of the affair. of The Star’s cards turned face up. Likewise, you can see Chief Lang’s cards, even the ones he is trying to conceal. Why leave Lang in charge of more than 400 policemen after he has admitted what you yourself call serious indiscretions |north of the lsunk by a twas followed by the expected to have a great influence at|of the Balkans into the war on tne, ‘aide of the allies, it is believed The sap-head yarns that The Star is trying to cause you trouble for You can see all You know they are true, because he has admitted them. ? him. 1. He acted in an unseemly manner in a public cafe wine party and was responsible for the violation of a rule in Tate’s cafe when a cabaret girl was secured to drink at his table. o’clock in the morning. ' 3. He used a city auto and a police chauffeur to drive him to and from his wine party. / Chief Lang has made himself and you ridiculous by putting forth a silly alibi that made the whole town laugh. Your chief, when caught with the goods, show the mental caliber a chief should possess. AND YOU CAN FIRE HIM. YOU SHOULD SHOW COURAGE AND DETERMINATION. TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS. YOU APPOINTED HIM CHIEF OF POLICE. IT IS WHAT SEATTLE EX- ALLIES MAKE A DESPERATE RUSHONTURK LONDON, Aug. 25—A Rus | sian aeroplane squadron is re- ported to have bombarded Con- MAYOR QUIBBLES IN CASE OF LANG When is a “threat” not a] Still in the interview w stantinople Monday. A news joi roiens ‘official apologist for Poly tse agency dispatch received here Mayor Gill says a “threat” mayor said: “The Star was today reports that 41 persons (doesn't have to “threaten” any-| THREATENING to publish the were killed and wounded during (thing and still remain a “threat.” | story.” the aerial attack. Eight of the | His office dictionary, he says, In his office, Mayor Gill Wednes- day gave The Star the following statement victims were Greeks. Reports today indicated terrific assaults from the land, sea and air by the allies in the Dardanelles One Turkish transport anchored Negara roads was French aviator, while Athens dispatches reported the de struction of four Turkish sloops carrying troops to Gallipoli by a| British submarine While the British colonial and French troops were delivering at tacks against the Turk land post: | tions, two allied cruisers are de clared to have entered the Darda proves” it. He read the defini- tions of “threat” and “threaten” from A to Z to a Star man Tues-| «| DID NOT INTEND TO IMPLY day to “prove” it | THAT THE PUBLICATION OF The discussion arose over an in-| THE STORY BY THE STAR WAS terview Gill gave out to a morning CONDITIONAL ON CHIEF pa as follows LANG'S RESIGNING OR NOT RE- hen the chief expl SIGNING.” all the details of the ca Then why did Gill y me and told me The Star was | “threatened” ‘anything? bedi: THREATENING to publish the Ah! Here comes the dictionary: story, he said he would resign | it's all right to say threaten if if | wished it, to save the ad- | you intend to do something that ministration any embarrass- | is unpleasant to some one else and ment. Altho | thought ke had | vou tell ‘em about it,” says Gill, been indiscreet, | told him that (“When you announced you were nelles and bombarding the land] | did not think he had done | going to publish the story, you batteries anything wrong.” were threatening to do it, weren't These assaults by the land! Of course, Mayor Gill knows The| you? forces resulted in the capture of) Star never made any threats to The announcement referred to by one Turkish trench by th ans at Sulva bay ye trali-| publish or not to publish the story ay and of Chief Lang's story if certain ire of 800' conditions were fulfilled or not ful- other British | filled. The mayor knows there were no conditions whatever. He knows the story of the wine. party -cabaret- girl “hide-and-seek” affair had no connection with The| Star's charges of brutality against | Officers Phillips and Collins. | He Knows Lang Lies | The mayor also knows Chief Lang lies when he intimates The| Star held the story of Lang's visit | positive oral resignation. to a girl's room in the early morn-| | When Lang was informed by The ing hours as a club over him to| Star that the story was to be pub- make him do one thing or another, | lished, he went to Gill to ask tha The mayor knows The Star never| mayor if he—the mayor—wanted discussed the girl-and-wine-party | him to resign case with Lang. AND GILL DID NOT INSIST. “BUD” FISHER the mayor was the letter sent to Chief Lang by The Star by messen- ger on the morning of the date the story of the wine party was pub- lished. It stated The Star was pub- | lishing the story that day, and in the interests of fairness asked the chief to make a statement, which would be included in the story. By the way, Chief Lang made his “offer” to resign, Gill now adds, on the day The Star published the ac- count of his revelry, It was no writ- ten resignation, It wasn’t even a yards of trenches by troops The present attacks on the Dar. danelles are regarded as of great diplomatic as well as military im portance Would Influence Balkans Forcing of the straits and opening the gateway to Constantinople is upon the Balkan states, now renter of diplomatic effort Assurances of participating in the pture of Constantinople and sharing in the spoils of the near Kast would mean the early entrance the B ~ ItMeans Oxcoos me! COULD You TeLt ME VER 183 IT, DER CHEAMAN CONSUL ? to nuke The Star advertis- ing columns your buying guide. 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