The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 1

Howdy, OFFICER: | Don't be afraid of the speed laws f you're on the way to sign the Nonpartisan bill, Hurry! Hurry! Sign Not cast ‘em as quickly ae possible. Weather fore “Tonight and Friday, much time left rain.” WILSON MOVE HERALDS PEACE President Wilson’s note today heralds peace. The Star has no. patience with those who cry out that his action fayors one side or the other. Peace is the important thing—and both sides are eager for it. They are like two boys who fight, and fight on, hoping some- thing will end the fight, but too proud to call a halt themselves. President Wilson makes it easy for both sides to enter into conference. They may talk cockily—but at heart they want an end of the war. No matter what any of the warring nations may say NOW, The Star is firmly convinced that they will confer soon—and the president’s message is hastening the day mightily. There is little possibility that the rela- tive positions of the belligerents will change erially in the next year or wo. Wilson's move, above all, comes after formal peace talk has been indulged in by both sides. It comes logically—and with a mighty good chance for achieving results. SEATTLE NOW HAS | 348,639 PEOPLE | To do r Chr mas action is now You mighty It rests with you. Will this city, which last-minute tions in the to le to cal time? regu Star. stores larly in party label. MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES pn this week. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT _DARES TO "PRINT| THE ‘NEWS VOLUME 19. | presented to society thie winter! TWO. BABES DIE IN FIR AT ALKI; PETERSON FAMILY DESTITUTE : = partisanship in this state, or shall be denied it. During the week there must be 10,000 more names secured in Seattle. rolled up a majority of 12,000 for Woodrow Wilson, fall down at the criti- The Star has confidence in Seattle—and in its people. fort on YOUR part will carry this campaign to success. It’s worth while to good citizens, who are not engaged in profe politics, to wipe out party lines and elect men on their merit instead of their Will you help? Get a petition and circulate it. tion, Initiative Bill No. 28, when presented to you. It’s your last opportunity SEATTL WASH.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916 WORLD'S RICHEST DEBUTANTES COMING OUT! SOLE HEIRS TO CARNEGIE AND ARMOUR QUARTER-BILLION DOLLAR FORTUNES! The seattle Star President's Request for | Lolita Armour, at left, only child of J. Ogden Armour, and Margaret Carnegis, only child of Andrew |On both sides so that the situation is becoming increasingly criti- | Carnegie. Notice to fortune hunters The two richest debutantes in the world will be Oress-suit wearers They are expected to lnnerit. theventir This Christmas season will she herself, bruised and burn- employment at the coal bunkers always be a tragic memory to ed, fainted. All had been tak Th ow the home Peterson ing an afternoon nap when the | himself re little the family of Walter Peterson. do beoke ous 7 Two of the children we: The cause of the fire is not de rooms comforta The thre place with ( dead Thursday, the mother was ’ bruised and cut, and every ma- ren hal Mites vane tinas opt inden Family Needs Aid threw overboard the fetters of party slavery, and Just a litthe ef- the shortes We have day Fore- Thursday is of the year. oS milla Success means a free state, with elections devoid of the party bunk and caster Salisbury's word for this, yo ir hoppy is . . . . . . le but the difference between the You w a party label, with primaries in which you can go to the polls without telling ; ; ‘ good, 8 ay Dick and H he electi hich iad length of Wednesday, Thursday ry every Tom, Dick and Harry on the election board to which party you and Friday ia #0 slight that The best offerings long. Remember, you had to tell last September, or you got no ballot. Ll ahapter tie fessot pete ley oft eattle best » jon oO e forecaste - ional self to prove it It is a matter of only a few seconds. The sun arose at 7:56 a, m., and will set beyond the Olympics at 4:18 p.m. ‘To morrow it will appear at 7 a, m, and set one minute and about five seconds later than scheduled today, Sign the peti- |today said this was the real reason behind President Wilson's |purpose behind the Wilson message: of good-eocial standing stand to land a of ie faihers abyh a "a es Talons | tolfta Armour and Margaret Carney the a . Immendtty ric ty "Reva more | debutantes. ui Athan one heir, * Fine The only thing the Gegmain over-| !4aho, opposed imfediate adop- | bringing about peace may laver pre- t did was, possibly, to <7 tion of the resolution. sent “itself. t te a few days a resolution was introduced| he resolution a referred to It was not finally decided to send | before the news of ‘Lansing’s “ex-|the committee > gr freien relations, this until Monde The note was "isent Monday night and Tuesday MT eet JONAL DRY [ARGENTINA | The difficult that faced the nt was that the note might ye construed as a mover jeal, They are the only children of Ogden Armour and} Andrew Carnegie, two of the world's richest men. | fortunes | NIGHT Yes, indeed we're printing an other of Jack Jungmeyer's sto. ries on big game hunting in Alaska Mighty — Interest ing. Page 10 to day EDITION ONE CEN 1 ON 4 NEW Peace Guarantees Comes — as Surprise to the World By Robert J. Bender Unite Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. —Plainly hinting that there is danger — of the United States being drawn into the war, Secretary Lansing — to the belligerents, sending of which was announced last |night i He asked peace terms from all and guarantees for future world peace. ‘ The situation of the United States as a neutral is rapidly be- coming intolerable, he said. Therefore, the president has de- |manded a showdown. Lansing authorized the following statement as being the real “Our rights have been invaded and the situation is becoming so intolerable that it cannot go on long. “More and more our rights are invaded by the belligerents I mean by that that we are drawing nearer to the verge war and therefore.are entitled to know what each belli xin order that we r. conduct. future. “It was 1{8t'6ur m fed wh said the situation h pa |Pered by the war but our ri ed proposal and h had noth. fiwe PI fe me intolerable. pros-— s have Been i inva co ION BACKS Lans positively | t the erman peac Lioyd-George ‘spec to do with the dispatch of the ‘i n note, except, possibly, to On this point he authorized a quo tation, as follows | 4 No nation has been sounded on WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— | planator | Planatory ad v4 reached this matter, and we did no! yw in| Senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, | the capital. \ advance What LioydGeorge would| presented a resolution today | eceeh eee Piet prest- way, And there was no considera-| indorsing Presidént ‘Wilson's |with the best intentions, he Fes . tion of Gérman ‘overtures gr the} Mote to the wi tiftg powers, |resolution by the senate should be speech of Lioyd4 ge in connec-| @nd asked imme fate consider. | withheld at this time, and suggest- tion with the formation,of this note.| @tion. or it. SefMator Borah, /ed that & more satisfactory plan for and in ald of th fically or in th German} vom LAW OFFERED | Of COMMITTEE 1e| | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— The national prohibition Bill was reported favorably by the senate judiciary committee to- day. The bill as amended by the SURE TO BACK WILSON'S PLAN BY CHAS. P. STEWART U. P. Staff Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, Dec, 21.—ArR gentina is certain to support Presi- dent Wilson's plea for peace. The warmest approval, expressed by ay Decide the War suggested to him that] ‘ ally w in no} the war sithe | themselves nd to| he hinted that if the It had bee the United position to belligerent Seattie’s population is now They were based on statis terial pos in they had ac. | seh ry 4 348,639! | tics at hand July 1 of this year, cumulated had been swept A Wine galled we The Sear yee Hegre pee “se ea arto | The figurés were made pub- and show an increase of 17,805 away by flames that destroyed |] terday. ny Ph, ca ee ar We by the'\Gnitey States cen- 2 ie pag ee = eens: the little home at 429 Alki ave. |] “I've got $10," he said, “and Powis too « ee ngs el ag ay pith ers” Wednesday aafternoon. No sl Bere Mla Aa An hour later gehe suddenty| cial. Nancy, 134 months old.and |] Wf he had called up today we FOO of epenn tia ite cou god a om A aninanas a=aa nd ; Albert, 2 yeare and 3 méi |] would have told him to give it Matean r — SENATORS FROM TWO °°". <0: 200 old, were burned to death, the |] to. the Peterson family Wit bie tI@W of ber tists sera Pyle ale yo mother being able to rescue At Third ave. and Pine st. the ip Bene er» Lapel STATES , SAME CITY 1911 the official population, only. 6yearold Edward when |I fieg pparirent pie ea gah lel 4 window. The glass cut a 420, tinued pathe aged el | ibe astroyed net ae babiae “pale arid tossed him thru the\win-|} 912 they advanced to 295,226, In spite of the big banking dow. He dropped to safety, sus-| ae ery fbr hr ict ate ay interests and efforts of brokers | 5 peril a” fire at West Beattle |) aining ‘only minor in r the 20,834 to strengthen the position of shad The fire spread #o 1 tal population of the Unit-| the market by demand for extra the flames drove the woms ed States and her territories has) Margins, 3,176,000 shares were, | termined, tho i ‘ts from th e her babi grown to 112,444,620, according to| @umped into the exchange Yn ed from anovert , A neigt the amok the censta bureat the wildest day since the North Peterson {s° employed at the|ran t ern Pacific panic in 1901 United Coal Sa company, West F | The following table shows the| Seattle, only ards away from | He cal of both the war and of the fire. He reached | he | =A out of the door.t She drop. | wept, tho he ¢ struggled to Ret ~ .| ped in his arme check his | : «| And he had to stand there while) “It h lard tent ; ‘% | his babies burned to death for bin men at the sin ™ , lo Phe house was totally destroyed! coal. c¢ He worked ‘ Today the Petersons are home- hard and skit Ket his little e ay gees ry Pd PEACE MOVE ‘ |teas and destitute, Phe house car-/ home, Now it's all gone—and two 4 ‘ - ried no insurance. /All their cloth- of his babies dead ee ee ener rere “asi ' ‘ ‘ ing is goné. Every piece of furni-| C. A. Moran, a Walt se attle fire: ipnt states whose an 8 aba - ture is déptroyed. &Peterson has| man, called up The Star Thursda same city. The city is = ne NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The been earning but $2.50 a day This son case is the most Oh ne ene ee ates as tg| crash in prices on the stock By harnessing a tiny| Wednesday morning the mother! pitiful I've eee,” Hie bald, “tt Fhe ao oe naeat it | exchange today, following pub- | wagon nd |and her child x people it, I'm sure they |! only a short distance from that of) jie ation of the American note Jit could ¢ own|on the happy holiday would do something.” Sheppard of Texas. _| and Lansing’s explanation, con- weight « \tew days ahead. The father had| Other firemen got interested haa AE at Soon they had nged to ma Station No. Third ave. and ADVERTISING MANAGER'S Pine st. a receiving station for do-| DAILY TALK ! nations ree More Days! Wrell vee that everything brought here is delivered to son * : son,” said Battalion Chief William Three more days—and then we shall either have the opportunity of non- Hoddel. “The officers will take n 2 More Days [change of averrthing ttrned ove "Tis Shortest Day of Year, | So Friend George Says end it; to thi judiciary committee becomes | members of the government here United States were to enter the| “an iron-clad dry measure. | was coupled with the prediction |war, it would turn th decid} Senator Reed, geCulberson and | that the whole continent would be jedly, and he hasized that the were thé daly members |a unit in its support of such a step. Was A langer that the} te | Officials were swept off their country would be drawn in | ill prohibits] feet with surprise at the note and Must Do Something the sale, m transpor-|formal comment was not immedi- He had also said that there was! tation of intoxicating lic *s, with. |ately obtainable. Informally, how. in the administration's mind nolin, the importation thereof into, | ¢ expressed the belief urpose to suggest peace in any|and the exportation thereof from|t e president's plea for a defi- way. On the contrary, he explain-| the United States and all territory |nition of the terms of peace on Jed that what had been int subject to the jurisdiction thereof,| both sides was most timely and desire to learn the pea s|for beverage purpose | 1 to have fair prospect of lot'both sides was in reality an ef-| Section two of the bill provides | success. fort to rtain “what would sat-/that “the congress shall have pow siete? us: isfy the belligerents as to ending|er to enforce article by all ap. 4 the war,” but with the viewpoint of| propriate legislation F lering the position of neutrals \ xy7 intolerable Wd ; Lansing’s whole talk emphasized It pays to read The Star's j}ON PA ‘ & I AG _(Continued on page 7) —— Ad Page. | Miata * 7 One of the greatest fiction writers in literatures In fact, according to Fore- | Chafles Dickens, is to the novel what O. Hen¥#ds to the cast lisbury’s figures, a no- | short ator ticeable increase in sunlight hte tobe Ree Christmas Dickens touched at the heart-strings of humanity. His day, which will be one ° pat fat Pe Ph NA ee, HO |characters were men and women we really know. They live, forced to turn on the lights aathors ee airtel to dust, but to this day Dickens’ “Christ- earlier tonight than at any |mas Carol” is recognized as the best Christmas story ever other time this year written The shortest day of the year at the North pole will be It Kar ith athe cos reek. ‘beginalt will appear in he Star next week, begiuni - marked by a day of no duration, gir» beginning Mon while there will be 12 hours of | ay, Christmas day, ‘ahd ending Saturday. Beyond all ques light at the equator, Seattle | tion, no more appropriate and interesting “novel-a-week”™ will have & hours and 22 min- utes of Hght, could have been secured for readers of The Star next week, t