The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 4, 1916, Page 9

STAR—SATURDAY, NOV, 4, 1916. PAGE 9 “HELL SHIP” IS | SCENE OF TWO VIOLENT DEATHS im aan — - ——~| f Why Fm Going to Vote [LAWYER TURNS ey tor President Wilson MOHAMMEDAN By Meredith Nicholson 710 SHAKE WIFE Cynthia Grey’s LETTER £ | Humphreys’ Seventy-seven For Grip, Influenza COLDS (Author of “House of a Thousand Candies,” Etc.) Wilson | Dear Miss Grey: As we are soon ) 1 whall vote for the reelection of mident ¢ to vote on Initiatives 18 and 24, 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 4 |) cause, having been trusted with power and subjected to the most {] NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—That feel that the voters should know) +). Jinx of trouble which has 1; trying teste conceivable, he has demonstrated in the highest || Maurice J. Rose, wealthy Min. The firet #tae of @ Poa te, |this true story: | degree his fitness to stand as the protagonist of forward-look- ) Ra ladiied taned Mohasn minution in the size of the Bleed A echool teacher in a mining! hovered over the fivemasted |! ing America | neapo! yer, ; gf pelenese, Sea amp near here told me that when| schooner Henry K. Hall evar |) The democratic {deal has never had a more efficient ex | medan in one of his seven e |ehe firet took her position she; since it left San Francisco ponent than he, He has succeeded in putting {nto effect more forts to divorce his wife, |couldn't understand the actual stu:| months ago for South Africa |) bl ideas than may be credited to any other president who has }| Bertha, was revesied to the |pidity of the foreign boys in her) got in a master stroke today. } gat in the seat of Washington tn my lifetime { New York grand jury which us Seventy-seven" af room, On Monday they were 80) While a knot of sailors with |) He {sa man of vision, intent upon winning for all the peo- today Indicted him on a charge h age, gives the pete an jdull that they couldn't learn any-\ broken teeth and sear bodies |) ple, patiently and by sheer force of reason, all that makes for of subornation of perjury. ane |thing, and on Tuesday they were! siood by, a warrant charging mur-|j life, berty and happiness )| According to information devel eventy-seven® contains sethiay |but little better, By Wednesday | dor wan insued by Federal Judge |} I belleve tt to be the duty of all who love America and be- }/ oping after the indictment, Rose| Par! of Jae ee M they began to respond to the teach: pooling for Fred Hansen, first of |) Hove in her as yet unrealized influence upon the world's thought ?/took his wife to Germany after try-| 4 #mall vial of pleasant pellets, Ing a little, and Thureday and Fri- fioer, Hansen is acc of the!) and progress to return Mr, Wilson to the presidency {|ing four times for a Minnesota dl-|fits the vest pocket, hanéy to Fale day they were almost normal. Aft) murder of Louis,” a half-| S| vorce, and instituted proceedings | $077 0%, all America er several weeks of this ahe went to the principal with her problem, on the claim that she was his first K |cousin. This case was turned down, | GILL WILL SPEAI jand then, it is claimed, he went to breed negro | TONIC TABLETS District Attorney Preston then di Ir |Larsen attempted to desert. He and he told her that they had the rected that a warrant be issued). gets pucepras, padre ame trouble with nearly all of the! jointly charging First Officer Han | cast off in a rowboat. Somebod Turkey, turned Mohammedan, and| (Hump reys’) gn boys. When they investi-/sen and Capt. D. O. Kilmann with | shot him to death from the schoon AGAINST WET BILLS tried again unsuccessfully. Yor the convalescent, for the wealt an@ gated they found that the fathers/the murder of “John Doo” Larsen,|er’s deck, the sailors #ay Returning to New Y Price, Cee, Ot Ot The New York Washington Square Players ef these boys carried on regulariaiso a member of tho schooner’s| At Durban, Natal, the crew re : Gil will give his|%4.® divorce before J wineoo, sestesien GONE Greatest ccess | drinking orgies Saturday nights and crew fused to reship. A new crew was| Mayor Hiram Gill will gt rich, but bis wife, after getting the| yim foray Mag | Sundays, and that there wae a sort! “Hell ship,” mumbled the saflors,| signed on condition that First Mate|last shot egainst Initiative Meas-|aid of an American consul in Ger: | ——<—<$<—$<——<——— nn iv of rivairy on between the fathers to between broken teeth. Then they|Larsen be not allowed to act. But|ures Nos, 18 and 24 0n the night of|many, returned and feopened the) q. | eee whose son could drink the most asked t 1 Mate I bell Labaaed. OM Rontadl pany vevelopments in this case|Samuel Schlelmann, an alléged ac- Wisards ith New i asked that Becond Mate Larsen be| Larsen went aboard ustralia,| November 6, in the Oak Lake| © eve " cane of Joy Wi That meant that these chil char with brutality, but this was|say the sallors, “French Louts” met i sgt . ‘* lare maid to have led to the perjury complice. Pleasantrice Human Beings dren (who will be future American not done ray death. They allege Hansen |#chool. The mayor has been an en-| i iictment, \citizens) were kept in a constant) Last ergetic worker for the drys, and Isaac P. Calhoun County Commissioner Second Commissioners’ District. FOR Tom Mix, the cowboy star, owns pring the schooner cleared | felled the man with a knotted rope The police will forward a warrant Bernard—Riggs & Ryan—Myrtle John Geiger |etate of drunkenness from Satur-/San Francisco for South Africa.land Jumped on his chest with both! he plans to make a whirlwind fin-|to Minneapolis for Rose's arrest,|a pearl-handled revolver mounted In “Disturbing the Peace” With His Talking Violin rag ge ly poses eens | Off Port Townsend a sailor named fect. ish on the ove of election and they have already arrested in eolid silver. en the pro tion law went b |Into effect, there was an immediate Orpheum Travelogue Around the World The Brightons Artistic Rag Pickers THE DANCING GIRL OF DELHI An Oriental Fantasy From Tales of the Mohammedaa Courts VANDA HOFF SUPPORTED BY RETALO RUBINO AND COMPANT ORPHKUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA—Charice Burnett, Director jchange in these boys, and they Im-| proved wonderfully, Not that the: men stopped buying liquor, but they| did stop giving it to the children, for they wanted the comparatively |amail quantity themselves. | By voting for Initiatives 18 and) 24, we will again make It easy for! |these ignorant foreigners to buy all ithe beer they “need for home use,”| land then the boys will be urged to| |drink, as they were before. if you| |feel that liquor in your home will| not harm your child, think of these) (PAID ADVERTISIN Do You Want Lower ve f ehtidren hd will harm, Ask your 9 R Matinee Bary Dey ot 9:00 as noe Elects atest mins, any Here’s How You Can Reduce ELECTION RETURNS ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE TUES. DAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 7 'DEFENDS WET BILLS My a fair campaign MI posed act wouk nd that the pro a driven to the bootlegger,” said Cor. |coran, “because they do not wish H\records. In this way the permit sys tem has been a failure.” favor of the measure. (Pala Advertisement) I received 109,701 votes at the rime udge Democratic Candidate for 4 was tricke fon by the au omina EDGAR G. MILLS. Good Roads Efficiency in Office Economy in Adminis- tration William Corcoran made 4 plea be- fore a large audience Friday noon |Yo¥ soon find out that the Now many people who drink are their names to appear on the county Judge E. P. Dole, former attorney general of Hawall, also spoke in answer “Yes" to that question.| From his money standpoint, it means an easy living and plenty of money. That this money is “blood money,” taking health and happi-| ness from thousands of othe he ses to believe. He tells you! that “beer” never hurt any one. It's too mild, | want to tell you that a “beer drunk” costs more and is more brutal than a “whisky drunk,”| and | know, for | have lived in min-| ing camps, where you know the lives as you never do in a city, and “temper-| this year for liquor, but they don’t tell you that practically as much that has gone out of the state every! year before this for whisky and| | wines alone, which proves that the consumption of liquor has decreas: ed considerably. As for the employment problem, legitimate business, they can use their plants and employ as many men as before. Take, for example, the plant at Olympla, which now jemploys twice as many men mak-| Ing a patented fruit juice as it used to employ making beer. j Vote down Initiativ 18 and 24; then next year go to the polls and vote for the prohibition amendment which will come up then—to pro- hibit any liquor from being import. ed into the state. MRS. D. Q.—1 am a respecable girl of 21 I have been engaged for some time and expected to be married this fall | spent two weeks this sum mer with a girl friend, camping at a certain beach near town, | came home | found a letter from my fiance, accusing me of wrong doing. He said no decent girl would go camping at that place Now, I'm a good girl and he knows possible, to explain ay h If the brewers want to start Into a, Taxes? Do you know that for the first time jn the twenty-six years of Washington statehood the last legislature passed an act which of- fers relief to the overburdened taxpayers? This act was drawn by J. T. S. Lyle, formerly assistant attor- ney general, attorney for the Taxpayers’ Association of Tacoma and n of Public Offices and other public-spirited officials, after n with authorities from all over the U d States. consultat It is commonly called the Budget Bill, and is the most complete law ever passed on the subject of raising and spending the public funds of counties, cities, towns, school, port, and park districts. Remember that 90 per cent, or $90.00 out of every $100.00 paid in taxes, will be raised and expended under the prc f this measure ions This Means You The Constitution makes every voter a legislator on Initiative and Referendum, ™ the High Tax Burden: REFERENDUM MEASURE NO. 9 WILL STOP THIS WASTE. It will make the officers estimate their expenditures in an orderly way. It will make them decide on the expenditure upon which the levy is based at a public hearing. It will make them stick to the amounts set forth in their estimates. in the Grand theatre for the pase aie they ett dt so gemgee I deel State Federation of Taxpayers’ Efficiency Associations, assisted by Dear that tas oars had condweted $2,000,000 went out of the state ember other taxpayers’ leagues, the Bureau of Inspection and The State Constitution requires the same thing of state offic This It will make them spend the money for the purposes agreed upon at the hearing with the taxpayers. will cut off the big interest load. Isn’t this Popular government? It will prevent raids being made on the treasury during the year for a lot of half- baked, ill-advised projects. THIS IS THE GREAT CAUSE OF HIGH TAXES AND THE HEAVY WARRANT INDEBTEDNESS. When | The Budget Measure had the remarkable history of being passed by the Senate with every vote for it. It passed the House with but one vote against it. Governor Lister signed the measure without hesitation. IT WAS THE ONLY IMPORTANT MEASURE PASSED_BY THE LEGIS- LATURE UPON WHICH ALL FAC- TIONS AGREED. Then what happened? the Budget Measure in Some cunning opponents of the referendum measures have started the slogan, “If in doubt about a referendum measure, either vote ‘No’ or do not vote at all.” Referendum Measure No. 9, the Budget Meas- ure, the exception, whatever th view taken. It covers technical and complicated questions of local government which cannot be understood except by an elabornte explanation by experts. There is no other method by which the voter can get that information. Yet by the legal machinery provided by the referendum amendment to the Constitution the voters will accept or veto the measure. lature decided that it should become a law. They It will compel all these with new schemes for spending public money to wait until the public hearing for making the budget, when they must meet the tax- . payers face to face. It will allow emergency warrants for purposes which could not have been fore- seen at the time the budget was made up. It will prohibit fake emergencies. It will knock out the custom of count- it. Besides, the place Is all right.| ing taxes levied on assets for indebtedness (Paid Advertisement) I told him this, and now | have a : ; j YOUR VOTE MAY DECIDE THE QUESTION bd 4 4 . AGAINST . second letter which | do not think | ne office-holders who want a free purposes, without upsetting the estimated Kill the Bond Scheme | tron) while to answer, | would! hand in spending the public money made The legislature and the Governor had the in- expenses for the year. Graft To the Voters of Count, | appreciate your advice on the sit-| a combination with organizations who were formation upon which to act. A ion. A gain ot easures 0: . * = leg- Ring Methods Ae it will be. Gitta. porkape ies ce et es ee es Tho Governor and every member of the legis. ONE OF THE SUPREME COURT | islature and | Favoritism impos ho| chided ia the raferenduas ealdaed: maine vee grit des Hang JUDGES RECENTLY STATED THAT : arisen D young | Wil you take the Judgment of Governor Lister, THIS ONE FEATURE ALONE WOULD man has no more faith in you THIS BUDGET MEASURE WILL who signed the bil; the legislative committees JUSTIFY PASSING THE MEASURE, * aileoaa tavauite “Mutmoey. an. hin APPEAR ON THE BALLOT AS REF- of both houses, the 45 senators and 95 represent EVEN IF ALL THE THINGS SAID || wife. Even had there been some | ERENDUM MEASURE NO. 9. Sides: the taxpayers who fathered this measure | AGAINST IT WER® TRUE, What has the man | es PE aE ed Boor engomneg O and whose interests are identical with yours?— : behind forgotten? Puzzle instead of writing the curt note. A man who loved you wou! had a sincere desire to sa | MR. TAXPAYER, ARE YOU GOING | TO LET THE TAX-EATERS DEFEAT | THE ONLY MEASURE EVER PASSED | or Will you all.w by the arguments yourselves to be carried away Referendum Measure No. 9 has the teeth to make public officers obey its pro- ) of those who either are not well isi A from any shadow of evil, not FOR YOUR RELIEF? ed ox who will promt by ‘tn detent? bec aa why so many of them are, merely to accuse, There seems no| g : LI zp way ¢ ut to let matters stand | 1fF YOU VOTE AGAINST ERENDUM a as they are | Q—My boy of 19 will not work Do you want to put an end to the rag ing public business? time systems of MEASURE NO. 9, OR FAIL TO VOTE AT ALL, IT 18 UP TO YOU TO FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE ABOUT HIGH TAXES, DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE TALK ABOUT PAYING INTEREST ON WAR- dE alter Ae bal anes: , Basch Do you know that the total taxes in this BER AI ee MEE Stet Re ca SR 8 eS CR RANTS WHILE IDLE MONEYS ARE brought him up the best | could| state rereased from $27,052,874 in 1911 to ON HAND. ‘ and tried to train him right. | am $37,448,539 in 1916, while the population of a stranger In the city and know no this state, as shown by the school census ine 2 ! 7} P i Gor wien oak os for hain. pido ) ol census, has remained nearly Referendum Measure No. 9 will not change the present law with Please advise me if you can. stationary reference to funds. A MOTHER. , oH A.—Try to interest your son In| Not only that, but the public officers didn’t even keep expenses The appropriations are handled by ledger accounts. The warrants athletic work, if that 1s at he} within the enormous sum raised. for the different purposes are drawn on a common fund. This also i en. at nim’ Sein, the Ys M. c applies to emergency warrants. A anc A a ® gymnasium : : . : . course and some of the evening Last year, county, city, andschool districts alone paid SIX Th , Se aaa ‘ A ° : b — ¢ opponents’ other argument—th study cournes..‘Tatk with the wo HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in interest on warrants not ig no better gument—thet 2 wll eee retary out your ditticaltion and covered by the tax levies. * ne will try to interest the boy. ‘ ; rac) : F cater the bey, will be willing to California and Idaho have pay ou-go provisions in their con- |take up some kind of work and HOW LONG CAN YOU STAND IT? stitutions which make officers stay within the levy. Their levies will be better fitted for it i er are not higher on that account. Do not forget that the public debt of all these taxing districts fon er sane aN “c bl on ane i eal now amounts to more than one hundred million dollars, which is ° The present road law prevents county COMMUSSONGtS from spend- p v vol A . “4 ci 4 v “4 i "ti fs iarshon wweota, mil butts, ten per cent of the assessed valuation of all the property in the ing more than the road levy in any one year, but it hasn’t increased So what is there left to eat? FATTY. A.—Soups, fish, oysters, lean meats, some kinds of vegetables, and fruits, bread, etc, LOGAN BILLINGSLEY state. state, and more than $80.00 for each man, woman and child in the the road taxes. ACTUAL EXPERIENCE IS BETTER THAN CONVERSATION Do You Know That High Taxes Increase the Cost of Every Article You Buy? U | STATE FEDERATION OF TAXPAYERS’ EFFICIENCY ASSOCIATIONS Come, friend, can’t you tell ISN T UNDER BOND A Federation of the Taxpayers’ Associations and Leagues of Eleven Counties in Washington, : gan Billingsley pleaded no by the look on his face? guilty FPrilay afternoon in the su - perior court to a charge of violat TAXPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION OF TACOMA It’s a ing the prohibition law, and was pa ; Age Pare es allowed to depart without posting The members of this Association pay more than one-half of all the taxes levied in Pierce County. bond ° ¢ The $500 bond originally posted : | Mi for his appearance a week ago was Referendum Measuse No. 9 will appear on the Ballot as the last Referendum Measure. The first line of the Ballot Title will read: forfeited upon his failure to appear “An Act relating to the raising and expenditure of revenues by counties, cities, etc.” . 7 4 ; i court, George Vanderveer, his i the cigar re reaper arn ee eg Presado nd cour nd that he was unable te ” ° ins | : aaeaar with Mla client so chaad, ol:| Vote “For Referendum Measure No. 9 [x and Help Reduce the High Cost of Living. Schwabacher Brothers & Co., Inc, || tho Billingsley was looking for him Distributers, Seattle, W He will ask that the bond be re mitted and allowed to stand on Fri- i day's pleading. i |