The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1916, Page 1

SOMPULSORY DRILL ASKED IN HIGH SCHOOLS OF STATE _U.S.AND CANADA = The S attle Star —as one tertitory under the rule of Eng- land! Don’t canis nual It’s the scheme : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWs : } VOLUME 18 ONE CENT tye ASS So which failed in “A Siren of the Snows,” LAST EDITION We may have felt a bit peeved at George Salisbury last week, but things look rosier now. George came to bat this morning as next novel-a-week in The Star,. beginning follows: “Fair tonight and Friday. Monday. » THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1916. USS PREPAREDNESS We have heard opinions of military and naval experts, famous writers, public nm. On Monday, The Star printed an editorial on its first page entitled: “PREPAREDNESS, in a calm manner reasons calling for preparedness. Following publication of this editorial, ivities, to give their ideas on this great question. That it is a momentous question, is evidenced opinion on the subject, and readily agreed to express it to the public. “To me, no national problem is of greater immediate importance than this matter of ness on this supreme concern.” Dr. Sydney Strong, of the Queen Anne Congregational church, one of gaining opinions of the private citizen. “J should be greatly pleased if The Star would run a in which the people would be encouraged to discuss pro and con the question of preparedness.” space for “The Great Debate” and invites its readers to discuss the question. Keep your letters short R a long time, now, we have been listening to the great American debate al preparedness. officials. Not so often, however, has there been any expression from the p' THE ACID TEST OF AMERICANISM.” In this article, it was sou mht The Star asked a number of citizens of Seattle, representatives of all wall ; ~by the fact that in nearly every case, the one addressed by The Star had a decided, Dr. Henry Suzzallo, president of the University of W ashington, in a note to ce and preparedness. It will be well if we can direct the nation to deep thou of the leading opponents of preparedness in Seattle, especially commends The Star's couple of columns or so every week,” he writes, “under a caption of ‘The Great De Dr. Strong’s suggestion is a good one. The Star will be glad to devote the d make them to the point. Following are some of the letters receiv By A. L. Kempster |. Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Ce. The Star: Upon my re-| Editor The Star: Any student of/ Editor The Star: You have Spokane this morning,| United States history knows that/ called my attention to an editorial itio was called to your the United States should give at-| appearing in the March 27th tssue page editorial—"Prepared- tention to preparedness. The his/of The Star entitled “Prepared the Acid Test of American: tory of the first years of the civil/ness, the Acid Test of American war was a succession of blunders. |{sm.” and have asked me whéther Lad “age mga The Star, The campaign against Spain in | agree with the opinions express co om aig Cuba reads almost ume a coule| led therein. rcefully @X- opera if the results had not 1D | ain, 1 agree with the ments in which Iso serious for the men engaged. [opinions exprensed in the editorial and in which I believe ev-| It takes years to build up a bust: citizen should concur./neas organization. Some of our ited States should have a great corporations have shown what unsurpsssed by any in the ican be done by. thoro organization should have an wen or/and preparedness. the plans of Aus | The same methods must be adopt jed in order to & good defensive or offensive military organization. | It requires years of training ay experience to develop a military ex- ecutive. It is necessary to have cad r do not agree in the alleged menace of preparedness, nor do I agree that the nation should de- pend for its military supplies sole- ly upon government munitions fac study of conditions ext i ene today ves the fallacy of, Ee. nothing All things we hold dear in this life are worth protecting and for, if necessary, and have— been since man first inhabited the dink 1s man- t | ita bh and an argumen state ald should be compelled to/against preparedness, the state teach military tactics and to give | ment that this country of ours has military training. {thus far escaped invasion and hy Sooner or later we will come to! increased greatly in numbers the policy of preparedness—the| wealth without adequate defensive that our national life/oniy question is whether we will preparation is to ignore the les our form of government prepare while yet there is time, or sons of history im danger unless hether we will wait until we fet Nor does the argument that our up against it,” and then start to geographical position on the globe 4 J. F. DOUGLAS. removes us from the reach of an enemy, any longer hold good. If we are to continue to live at pesce with the world and hold and enjoy what we have we must ade- quately prepare to defend our selves. This, unfortunately, we are not red to do today. Yours very A. L. KEMPSTER. ek CLEVELAND, March 30.—Mem from the neck down. ners of the interstate commerce Holmes, victim of the shoot-| commission and of the state public at the Seattle Construction a utilities board announced today Dock plant Wednesda: they would attend the inquiry into five Thursday. Phrviciane the wreck horror at Amherst, in Out little hope for recovery. | which 26 persons were killed and more than 40 injured, two fatally TRY TO END STRIKE LONDON, March 30.—David Lioya-George returned from France today to attempt settlement of the labor troubles at Glasgow, Scot __ liana pr truly, RAPS U. S. AVIATORS SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. “American aviators have failed in Mexico because they have made of aviation a social event, not a busi “The unfversity will have an en- Tollment of 10,000 students tn 15 é ff the present rate of in- continues,” said Carl F. > |. university architect, speak | | tng before the student body Wed- mesday. net This is the assertion today of toy Fran veteran flyer, formerly ‘elvilian Instructor at the San Diego aeroplane school. ed: kindly exactly article on _Teat 5 Editor The Star: — requested, | will what I think about Americaniam,” fn March 27. It ts in good, are restrained ments sald of all who speaking tn the + debate now going y of the Bos! you are sbout writer in town. Let me, reparedness what I am compelled a better one, ‘ You say that can outlaws have nation, the bara i parednese. On the o gcovernment.as ‘ean situation remarks! Further, had army, our chances of xetting Into war with Mexico would be multt piled You refer to the ctvil war of ‘61. ) 1 have a right to speak about it, because my oldest brother was one | of the victime of It You say Had the sessed 100,000 trained with adequate munitions, would have been short. This is just a guess! You forget that for every trained soldier in the North there would have been a trained soldier in the South. What indeed gave the South an advan- tage at the beginning was the fact that so many trained officers, be ing Southern men, left the federal ranks to lead the confederates However, 1 object to your posi tion on “Preparedness,” so ably presented by you, not because you are not logical, but because I am convinced th there is a better way, and a way that is practicable Mr. Editor, if you and I were next-door neighbors, and we had trouble over chickens, or a boundary line, or my kid went over North poe soldiers the war (Continued on page | 5) REPORTER TELLS OF RECEPTION AT PEN | How He Entered ‘Melting Pot’ and Lost All Connection With ‘Outside’ in the second articie on| Wife at the Wallin Walia peni- , ma Viewed from the inside days of actual experience as) 7 . His articles are pab-' 7 im Seattle exelustvely in The BY E. A, PETERS “All ye who enter here, leave hope| behin HEN the prison doors W clanged behind me, on that sunshiny Friday morning, | virtually “left hope behind. - The Bertilion photograph of Reporter Peters. A convict photog- all the “mugging” of new prisoners at the Walla Walla tiary, under supervision of Bertilion Officer Nickelson, Peters! photographed for the prison “rogue’s gallery” the second day of his term. 1 was Peter Wilson, forg- er, J had a sentence Guards sauntered about Thru a door at the left I saw, for! first time, the cages that were to be my home Prisoners, in the dism. convict garb, stood | prison proper is a 15-foot brick board wall, with barbed wire on top, look-, out towers of brick at each corner and a walk on the outside edge, along which guards in tan uni forms pace all day, rifles on shoul ders. The heavy guard-captain was deter- mined to act my part, no matter to the ‘ blue-gray t in the cor eyel me curiously, and ch the) passing the rd along that a new me opened into, “fish” had arrived breaking into jan open court inside this wall.) Within five minutes Walla Walla | Neatly clipped lawns, bisected by thru later experience, lelean walks of red brick, separated | the was to find | the anewerto jus from a large building with solid doors and heavily barred my question: | steel “Do peniten- | windows was the main cell tentiaries | house reform?” We entered the building os Lage | Convicts Eye New rt weil, A : le Og certain | Arrival Curiously that | would “Wait here,” the captain learn the He waved me to a bench truth. In a room to my right were sev-| And thave. eral men in bluegray sults, dili . gently working over sets of books.| fore a telephone switch-| ridore door thra ¥ My object in led as I learned every man of inmates knew of my arrival What's your name? I looked up. A uniformed guard stood over me. beside him One of the trusties, a slim, giing man, vest. Vests are unusual at Walla “Peter Wilson,” I replied, timidly The guard wrote it on a pad “Commitment papers didn’t come yet, eb?” No, sir.” and up. gan was distinguished by a Walla order. ed 7 Between the salle-porte and the, One eat be Take everything out Two trusties were | 4 lof your pockets and dump it into your ha came the next order. Earns Disdain \of Trusties Tho shorter of the two trusties held my hat. I began stripping my |clothing of every superfluous arti \cle | And it was at this moment that 1 |committed my first great breach of | prison etiquette. | I blushed when I discovered it. 1 | blush now when I think of it On the lapel of my coat was the emblem of one of my lodges. The |guard pointed to it, indicating that I should remove it I felt a surge | face. For it {s unseemly and unmanly for any convicted man to wear a lodge emblem {nto priron, or even refer to his fraternal relations after he becomes a “con.” | 1 glanced at the trusties. faces had hardened. They on me with disdain 1 removed collar, tie, euff links | Everything that was not a part of |my suit and undergarments | The guard took my hat, bulging }with the knick-knacks that a man Jecarries in his pockets. He counted my money, repeated the total aloud and handed it back for me to count Then he took {t again. and disap peared into the office aé the right The smaller trusty fo'lowed him with my overcoat and griy ‘Follow me,” commanded the tall | convict He started into the room of cell rows, We walked past an intermin able number of barred steel doors, The pavement, smooth and polished like glass, rang with the sound of my heels Odd sounds, clanging of doors, snatches of echoed conversation and trampling of feet, coming from no place in particular, made me trem ble with the weird disorder of noise “Turn to the | | f | of red over my Their looked right,” ordered my (Turn to page 8, “column 5) a thing et et |G in fie ler ethical ea large starting |Pacl | we must By Dr. Henry Suzzallo President University of Washington Editor The Star 1 military preparednes tion an a practical necessity. It In & cructs! problem for the Ameri can people, as crucial as * numant it's need to evolve a means of believe in for this na You |achteving everlasting peace among state-| the Nations of the earth We must keep the political inst! tutions of our national life intact our big human idealiem {is to do ite work in the world. As long o* other nations confront us with low doctrines, that permit systems of finer t stand ready to of self-defonse. We cannot prepare for the best that we would accomplish without ing for the worst that may tin Ww it te gees complex. We must avoid the ex- clusive and simple policy of ter- itarism; we. must likewise -. Pra ie It was not without foresight that | our political forebears symbolized the American eagle with an olive branch in ite right talons and ar rows in its left. To devise ways and means of | preparedness that shall not destroy our love for and devotion to inter national peace, fs a task that calls for the best intellectual powers of the nation. Let us not proceed hastily to action Hasty action. when the nation Is itnelf divided, wil! lead only to half-hearted and half-effective compromises. Let us withdraw from closed minded partisanship of view and enter upon open-minded thought and discussion. Then we shall soon bring ourselves to one mind where we can see our needs thru to decisive and complete arrange ments Once we see need of ad« quate preparedness, we shall b wise if we separate the tempta tions of large profit from the de sire for war. If the government takes over the making of mun} tions, it must do it with full set entific and practical efficiency. A half step would merely betray us into weakness. It would kill pri vate resources without substitut ing adequate governmental effect iveness In this and every measure we project the other respect the result of each step toward pre paredness We must not be caught by mere seeming to be prepared, any more than we can finally be caught thor oly prepared to defend a nation in ‘ue process grown crass, brutal, militaristic, and unworthy of de fense. . Every step must be measured by our double desire to remain hu mane and democratic against temptation from within and strong and devoted against threats from without HENRY SUZZALLO THEY KEPT HIM BUSY LOS ANGELES, March 30 Col. Henry Laub, wealthy poli ticlan and business man, today that he had hic 40,001 times during a hiceough attack which ceased last night ~ ° * our By Rebert S. Boyns Former President Commercial Club Editor The Star: Your letter of the 27th inst, has been received. 1 read with much interest your article on “PREPAREDNESS” In your fs sue of Monday last. | heartily agree with your position that we, asa nation, must be prepared It is an old but pertinent saying An open door will tempt « thief Knowing this, we have lock# ob our doors, catches on our windows. |This is PREPAREDNESS. This doen not mean that we want the thief to come to our home. It does mean that we DO NOT want him to come. He is not as |likely to come knowing we have |prepared against him in this man ner. The home with the most treas ures, the most costly furmishings, the best things in !t, is the one most coveted and most likely to be invaded by the thief, The nation that is rich and prosperous and pees for war is the very one oH ype invites the other na- come and apoll. The treas- Tenptn, the Inck of PREPARED NESS {s an invitation to despoll No sane man wants war. The avoat majority. of men think, and) rightly so, that war is wrong. This is no reason why we should not be prepared for it if it has to come. / To be prepared is not to Invite war. To be prepared is to help keep it away, to lock the doors. If as a nation we are not prepared then we are in a very dangerous position, one fraught with peril ] The European conflict has tanght very clearly that morals are forgot ten by nations very ensily. Might |seems to be right In the estimation of some countries. America would, unprotected, offer a splendid field for some European nation to recoup her losses when the war there is over, To be unprepared is to in- vite just such an invasion. | It {8 ABSOLUTELY NECES-| SARY in the present state of civil ization (much as we may deplore it) to protect ourselves, for we have | not reached that happy condition when nations and people are neither envious or covetous, and when they look on others as themselves, This is an Elysian dream as yet | Consequently that nation that ts {strongest, ts most prepared, is |safest. Look not then at the COST of PREPAREDNESS, but at the lcost IF NOT PREPARED. There may be a slight danger in being fully prepared for an emer. gency, but it is so small compared to the advantages {t {s not worthy of consideration. This nation {s not after lands or peoples—is not a con quering nation. She is content with | her present This danger of preparedness is not ours No man is worthy of a home unless he is willing to fight for the netity, the safety of the home. No man is worthy of citizenship in a free country, nor has he a right to such citizenship, unless he is willing to defend that country, This being true—and who will deny It? what business have we to exist as} a nation unless WE ARE FULLY PREPARED TO PERPETUATE NATION? To do this we must be PREPARED. Yes, give us PREPAREDNESS and let it be the best that can be | arranged, PREPAREDNESS is in surance against war. s the best conserver of peace Very truly RORER yours, BOYNS, SECY. DANIELS IS GRILLED BY HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE: WASHINGTON, March 30.— Attempts of “big navy” members to heckle Secretary Danieis while he addressed the house naval committee today were folled by Chairman Padgett. “1 recommend 7,500 addition. al enlisted men, 2,500 appren tice seamen, 2,152 hospital corps attendants, 2,000 marines, bringing the total personnel up to 67,952," said Daniels, amid repeated efforts to interrupt him. Padgett finally silenced those who sought to annoy Daniels, an- nouneing that each member would have a chance to question him after he had finished Daniels warned the committee against paying individual offic agree with the e naval board Among Dan ideas, given to the ouse committee, was the sug: gestion that the government pro vide a reserve, including every sort of available men, from boilermak ers to private yacht owners. He recommended the appoint iment of 30 civilian engineers every year to serve for ten years as of ficers, the appointment of 20 civil-| ian aviators each year to serve for| five years, in addition to getting| aviation carps members from the navy ranks, the appointment of ely ian educators at Annapolis, and| releasing the majority of the 90 o Ifleers now serving as teac baal there for active service. too much heed to! who failed to | Brown of Sumas, ibe especially |practical studies in the entire cur land MAY REQUIRE ALL SCHOOL GIRLS TO TAKE UP NURS Compulsory military training for high school boys, and a jcompulsory course of trained nursing and domestic hygi for high school girls, is provided in a. bill drafted ae Victor Zednick, and made public Thursday, to be int: : in the next session of the legislature in January. Zednick is a.member pf the educational survey ¢ sion, which is making a.study,. with the aid of govern experts and leading educators in the country, of the tional. institutions in Washington. He will submit his measure to this commission at a meet-— ing to be held at the F Members of the commission are: | Senator W. J. Sutton of Cheney, H. Imus of Kalama, E. E. Boner pv Aberdeen, and Representatives Tom| Charles Timblin { Spokane and Victor Zednick of} attle. | At the conference Friday, the commission will receive reports jfrom Drs. S P. Capen and Harold |Foght, of the United States bureau of education, and from Dr, H. A, In glis of Harvard university, who have been in the state since the first of the month, studying the common school system, as well as the state! o! | institutions. | President Suzzallo of the Univer. sity of Washington and President | Holland of the Washington State college will also attend | Would Affect 6,000 Boys Zednick’e plan would bring ap- proximately 6,000 boys under its scope. It provides for instruction of at least two hours a week. | The courses are to be prescribed by the state board of education, with | the added provision thi the mili tary instruction shall have the ap- proval of the adjutant general, and the trained nursing and domestic hygiene course shall have the ap- proval of the state board of health. Zednick Makes Statement Explaining the advantages of his plan as profitable tothe boys and girls in times of peace, as well as alding the program of prepared nes*, Zednick said “The measure 1 propose is simi lar to that recently passed by the legislature of New Jersey, and is modeled after the Swiss system of military training ‘The proposed enactment pro- vides for this course only in high schools of an enrollment of more than 50 boys, because the work could not be done satisfactorily | with fewer pupils. ‘L think the work in nursing and \domestic hygiene for the girls will valuable to them in) life. prove one of the most every-day “Tt will be ye like manner, the military becginine will be valuable in times lof peace. It will develop the boys |physt ally, teach them how to take of themselves under unex Shove’ conditions, and be especial- ly valuable from the viewpoint of |acitine “The present system of competi {tive athletics offers work only to the few who try for the teams, Mil itary training will benefit all.” WOMEN GATHER HERE More than 200 women from ev ery part of the state have gather ed here Thursday to attend a con fer of the Congressional Union to organize for concerted ac tion in support of the proposed federal constitutional amendment | ranting nation-wide suffrage. | Following luscheon at the Wash ington Annex at 12:30, Gov. Lister, Miss Doris Stevens of New York and a number of prominent wom en of Washington will speak in behalf of the bill now pending be-| fore congress, | stble, ye hotel Friday, at 10 a. m. ‘Carranza Holds Up Munitions EL PASO, March 30.—Gen. Gavira informed Gen. Bell to- day that he would not permit army munitions to be shipped thru Juarez until instructions had been received from Gen. Obregon. Bell requested a conference. Gen. Gavira crossed the line to Consul Garcia's office. BY E. T. CONKLE vu. Staff Correspondent EL PASO, March 30.—With a force of picked American soldiers already 300 miles in. side Mexico and er ne 10,000 troops chasing Villa, the army supply transportation problem was the sole topie here today. The Mexico Northwestern gi nounced it was impossible to ship munitions south before Saturday, owing to lack of equipment Army men expressed dissatisfac tion with Gen, Carranza’s “conces- sion”—his permission for Ameri- cans to use Mexican railroads. It only amounts to this: The lines have been thrown open for use by the U. terms as they uals. The army has been attempting to ship goods under those condi- tions for several days and has had the news suppressed for fear it might cause controversy , Villa been located, cial advices, at Santo miles southeast S. army on the same are used by individ- in unoffl Tomas, 60 of Madera and jclose to the Mexico Northwestern R. R,, but pursuit by rail is impos. as 40 bridges along the route have been destroyed, As this latest report of the ban- dit’s whereabouts probably was de- layed a day or two, Villa has prob. ably escaped into the heart of the Guerrera mountains, where it said by those familiar with the country he will be able to hide in- definitely R, R, HEADS DENY .. B-HOUR DEMAND NEW YORK, March 30.—De- nying the demands of more than 300,000 trainmen for an eight-hour day and increa wages for overtime work affected railroads mitted counter pro; ly after the employ lication was receive The concerted action of the roads was inciaainn by state men jultaneously at Chicago, Staelenn and New York,