The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1916, Page 1

E want you to tell on your neighbors. But we want to hear only the nice things. The Star believes the fine spirit of neighborly fellowship is more highly developed in Seattle than in most big cities. That it is, in fact, largely responsible for the city’s wide reputation as an ideal home community. We are convinced there is more good, wholesome, inspiring relationship among neighbors here than cynics and grouches believe exists in the whole world. And with your help we’re going to convince these cynics. We want you to write to The Star about the folks next door. You probably have reason to believe you have the best neighbors in the city. Tell us why you think so. Get into The Star’s ‘My Neighbor” letter contest. Just to make it interesting, a $10 prize will be awarded the writer of the best account of his neigh- bor’s virtues. The rules of the contest are simply these: Stick rigidly to facts. Do not refer to your neighbor by name—use initials if you wish. Or just call him “my neighbor.” Keep your letter within 150 words, Sign your full name and give your address) AND REMEMBER WE WANT TO HEAR ONLY THE THINGS THAT WILL WARM THE HEART! Professor Edmond S. Meany, historian of the University of Washington and a splendid neighbor to the entire state, has consented to act as judge. Now get busy with your letters. They need not deal with heroic affairs—just the helpfully human, every-day, make-the-world-better kind of things that are em- braced by neighborliness. The contest will close one week from tomorrow. The winner will be announced on Saturday, April 1. The annual Northwestern league meeting While some folks are fussing about spe- is on in Seattle. Doings of vital interest to cial prosecutors and such to make the city WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBOR? LAST EDITION baseball fans are happening. Edward Hill, = NEws : } ~~~ dry, they can’t stop George Salisbury’s sporting editor of The Star, is on the job THE ONLY |} THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } Fy wet blanket. He says: “Rain tonight and every day. Read his dope in The Pink. Saturday.” VOLUME 18 THE SOLDIER'S TEST A Short Story of U. S. Army Service on the Mexican Border HE Crystal Palace, premier keno joint of Cuidad Juarez, was all a-glitter. Lining both sides of the long baize-covered tables were rows of dev- otees of Mexico’s national game; yellow-visaged peons, almond-eyed Chinamen, race touts and carmined women of the under current, substan- tial looking Americans, gaping tourists, all elbowing each other in absorbed contemplation of the numbered cards and the little white disks before them. Over all reigned a brooding stillness, save for the monotonous chant of the crier as he droned his numbers. ‘“Eeigh-tee sev-en, number nine, tee-wenty-three,” he drawled. The silence was sharply broken. “KENO! STOP-P HER!” yelled a high-pitched voice somewhere down at the end of the hall.. A babel of voices. “The room buzzed as the checker hastened to the lucky man’s side. Near the center table a chair rasped on the sanded floor as a player arose; a youngster in civilian clothes, but stamped, by his military bearing and well-set shoulders, a soldier as much as if he had been branded “U. S.” “Vm cleaned for fair,” he soliloquized as he searched thru his pockets. “Not even a measly dobe.” Shouldering thru the crowd, he made his way to the exit. Outside he paused in the darkness to gulp in a draft of the night-cooled air. From the shadows a dusky figure stole to his side; a soft hand found his. A low laugh rippled out, in which there was the melody of “La Pa- loma,” and a voice whispered in deliciously stilted accent: “Hul-lo, Meester Joe! Eet ees only Conchita. Weel you play no more, senor?” The soldier’s arm stole about the slim waist. “Hello, Chita. No, I'm busted flat.” “Come weeth me, cara mia, and meet some friends of mine. They would speek with you.” The boy hesitated but a moment. “Sure thing, Chita. Lead me to ’em,” he said. * * * a” * « way, the pair proceeded down a pitch black passage between buildings to a windowless room in the rear of the Opening the door, Conchita pushed the boy ip. Three men were seated about tabl e with a flask of mescal and a sh o ‘os b them vere Mexicans, in soiled uniforms, the other hily-dressed man, bearing akable ear-marks of a gambler 1e sight of the soldier, the gambler broke out effusively “Well! well! See wlio’s here. Come in, Sims, the water's fine.” The boy eyed him coldly The gambler’s grin changed to a snarl “Come off o’ that now. I want thems50 bucks you owe me, muy pronto. “Do you?’ replied Sims coolly. “Help your , One of the Mexicans raised his hand *'S-sh, senors, no quarreling,” he cautior are all friends. Ees ect n Addres ims, continued: “Meester Sims, you owe Senor ‘Tom F a leetle service you can earn enough to pay him and much more that sounds like money listens “Bueno!” exclaimed the Mexican He began talking rapidly. Rather too ostentatiously careless, the other two arose and shuffled to the door. The key grated in the lock. As the Mexican proceeded, Sims’ face flushed; the veins of his neck swelled. At last the Mexican had done and leaned back question- ingly. Sims was silent but a second, then spoke heartily: “YOU: BET! I’m your huckleberry. Let's all take a drink and get down to cases y The girl ved her hands delightedly " no!" ti 1 others ex changed triumphant glances and the tension 1 relaxed ‘ here,” said Sims, as he wiped his lips upon hi ceve. “You want my machine guns fixed and I am to get 500 pesos for doing it. Let's see, that’s how much in gold?” * ” * * ” * FUMBLED in his gray-green blouse H Where in the devil's my pencil? I'll figure it out His han@ stole into his shirt bosom and an automatic frowned in the light. “Hands ap, PRONTO!” came the crisp command The automatic covered all four at once. They were paralyzed by the suddenness of it Sims arose and backed to the d the key to the outside “STEADY NOW,” he menaced as the men started up, “or I'll fill you full of Uncle Sam’s 1 YOU, TOO, 'CHITA! Tomson, come acre to the post ana and collect that fifty. A NICE HEMP NECKTIE goes with it, you cur. BUENOS NOCHES, senors.” Quick as a flash he swung himself out, slammed the door and turned the key in the lock Half way down the alléy he paused to light a cigaret “ME jam them rapid firers?” he snorted. “MY BABIES? Huh! they've got their nerve.” oor. He unlocked it, drew it open and transferred 24, 1916. T'TLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH SENATE DERATES MEXICAN WAR PERIL Hay Bill, Passed by House, Called Tnadequate | CRITICISE G G Takes Life Aboard Cruiser Sarat | NORIN BREMERTON, March 24— | man’s act. The arulee re | °O. ©. Paiithorpe, 30, a junior cently returned from six years’ | duty at the China station, al! ¥ mepebeeré the. .crulser of which time Palithorpe was phot... himesi? in his aboard her. He is unmarried. rp her at 9 and graduated from the An ONE aan’ REWS BTANDR, Oe @ @ ¢ } Lain Friday morning, and na naval academy in 1910, iii wd anioat inetantly belng boatpned immostately te IN A i R. ; re ; apt. Coontz, commandant | the Saratoga. Militia Provisions Conflict; 41 the navy yard. has appoint. | “t wae amazed and horrified | provisions of the two bills molded With Clause in | ed a board of inquest to ex- | to hear of his suicide,” said Constitution amine into the tragedy | the commandant. “I saw him sealife’ No reason is as yet known yesterday. He appeared to be WASHINGTON, Mare arc h 24. 24.— be: charge that “sinister TERMS INSUFFICIENT to the commandant for the jolly and in his usual splendid commandant for” the young | spirits.” By Gilson Gardner Jand cause war between them was made today by Sen. Stone, WASHINGTON, March 24 MAR Y W ILL SEE FI tH |He made this assertion after telegrams telling of serious con- Inadequate” is the verdict {di tions on the Texas and Arizona borders had been read in the of the preparedness advocates| SOCiety Folk Reserve Ringside Seats“ y bill, passed by an : forces” were trying to inflame the United States and Mexico h to come in out of the wet - eee | knows it n in Mexico is critical—that an effort is inanimous vote of the ‘ 3 | being mad ¢ r and outside of Mexico to house late Thursday ‘ . 4 excite and inflame the Mexic tell them that the United This measure secks to in-) ; 41 | States contemplates aggression against the whole government crease the regular army from and the people of Mexico. its present strength of 100,- , “The president sought to impress the Mexicans with hi¢ 000 men to 140,000. | | friendliness and the senate indorsed his stand The War College recom- f 1 “But there are influences at work, and we know it—work- mended to the president an : “J |ing to create a situation the end ‘of which we could not know. increase to 280,000, hein al “Will the senators make the present critical condition reserve of regulars number-| g ? 320,000. 1) Ston 1 Borah clashed when Borah and Sheppard of Hay bill would add Texa telegrams to be read f Douglas citizens, resery regulars, less asking help and expressing fear of massagres and invasion. f the gine F $ e militia will not be mobilized orf the Mexican bor« t of reports ft onsuls in Mexico and arn The bill passed by a vote of 40 }/men with the punitive expedition, sident Wilson and his Britton of Illinois and 1on- . 3 ; cabinet, at a conference today, cided there was no need . } |for either volunteers or militiz Relenun ‘Cheat tne Sal. deme P It is possible that more regulars may be rushed to the have provided for a larger army < F} line. Secretary of War Baker said today he had not yet given ah: ° bill provides for building. up, ; i (Turn to page 2, column 1) 100 federalized guardsmen, and con E P x tains a provision for summer train 4 PASO, March 24.—Francisco Villa is reported sure ng camps, from which a third force ‘ Y C He may be engaged in battle by American forces of federal volunteers is expected to > Thea t e today {# in the] é a £ 1 Bertani, Carranza senate ill be ec fered , itec Namiqt , and the bandit wag fondas 6 combined with P \ envelope ert ops and the Americans under Brig. Chan army in the senate, it is nd, and the best ‘ é Bertani's report, stating that |into one upon which a conference » / a js ‘ 4 ipossibl r Villa t anepe the trap, and that his ‘committee of the two branches c# } ee . . jcapture was imm itly expectec Agree ‘ ie In his report Bertani s i d to The Hay bill lays emphasis on fiv polly ey , aid Villa retreated toward El Oso, the militia, and the act contains| \ ive miles s uth of Namiquipa, after a fight in which he lost several killed and 100 horses. The Americans co-oper= elaborate provisions intended to . overcome that paragraph in esi insets aie ss Spa phlei cecal ating with the Carranzistas against Villa are believed to be conatitation of Uitat the mtica| NEW YORK, March $4.—t1t another are Geraldine Farrar, jeither Col. Dodd’s or Pers men, who were sent south shall be under the authority of the| begins to loo if the famous the prima donna; Mary Pick- from Casas Grandes in troop trains over the railroad wp “ ie ore he motion picture ac ; vari¢ Diamond Horseshoe” of the tress; David Belasco’s daugh Jose Flores, arrivin .yrera as vigorously asserting his Under this clause the appoint old Motrope n Opera house ter, and many of their friend pclared Villa boarde a oyalty would be » into a cold Lindley M. Garrison, former a Since the rumor of his defection, (Continued on Page 12.) and clammy shade by the array retary of war, will be there » > > wou errers nic ave dectaean of socially elect who will v ee atnnant tha k 1 s aboard a © right to oneal @| the Jess Willard-Fr ! tenor; Jim Corbett; Robert Ne ns W ” cereal la, but that, JEFF IS CROWNED ay 1 fight thru ra | Fitzsimmons, et al a informed the passe , 5 nis » did not For an hour there wasn't a at N on Squ jwers that Gen, Luis Herrera had |i vin s sound save the click of chip den tomorrow night AMSTERDAM, March 24.— | joined him is one of the few against chip, then Jeff came It leaked out today that the Flushing correspondents of Am- | Many Declare Him Loyal nerican offict no bellevaal out—but turn to page 11 and list of ringside reservations sterdam newspapers reported | " preponderd » of opinion Herrera to be have a laugh with Bud Fisher. | might look like a page from sounds of heavy firing in the er, is that Herrera is loyal to 3 « andant here, Mutt and Jeff and Czar Nick || the blue book. Several hun- English channel today. The |C rmation abel are on their way to the Big n will be present nolse seemed to come from the | Arrivals from Chihualy , ant between Villa and Fight. those who will see direction of Ostend and lsaw him Tuesday Teleg ) S € The ° Westende, {Chihuahua City official EVERETT TRUE TURNS SPRING POET! (BUT HIS OUTBURSTS LOSE NONE Listen, DACOCK, DO BEHAVES A HERE, YouNG FELLOUY, TAKE YOUR CHOKE —| You'Re THE BOOB THAT CUTS THE LAWN | PAIN, REMORSE. AND STYGIAN GLOOM | You PROMISED TO PAY THAT MONEY BACK HH - MUCH LESS TALK; MUCH MORE SHAVE! | STOP THAT NOISE, OR LOSE YOUR VOICE!] WHEN SLEEP IS SWEET AT AT CARLY DAWN! | FOR GUY ON CAR WHO WON'T MAKE Roont Binsot Bancol Birr! keRWHACKS