The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1917, Page 1

n time of Peace Prepare for War Renn ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time n went } THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS { is Weather foree tain or snow VOLUME 19. SEATTLE RAARAARARAARARALR AAR RAD DREADED DDD PDP BPD EDL NEWS BTAN WASH., THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1917. ONE. CENT ox q7"A'N,A%2 NURSE WEDS RICH sengers arriving aboard the liner Philadelphia brought a story of the White Star liner Celtic having struck a mine, while 12 hours out from Liverpool, en route to this coun. try, and putting back. The pas sengers Ceclared the Philadel a | ! ank Guarantee Women Riot Law MUST Pass | Over High | | to avail itself of the opportunity eacaad tage this | newspaper to pass a bank guarantee law, it did not have the light of recent events to guide it. Other newspapers opposed it. Most of the bankers, without rhyme or reason, were PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 22.— against it. The legislature's failure at hat bigest te failure Food rioting broke out in P | tantamount to a crime—may be extenuated to that extent. | delphia today. Shouting, “it's | : That it should be slow NOW to pass the | [obbery, robbery,” several hun | pit ge Ee een ee < t ni ae ivabl | dred Jewish women attacked | i] eee f guarantee law seems inconceivable. dealers who had advanced | Re eenteet By J. Herbert Duckworth Yet that is the state of affairs. Pr Pushoarts were overturned inst bathe the Critic put back ft WHA SHUEINGTON, Feb. 22.—Uncle Sam's Some kind of an insidious lobby is at work in Olym- | | til police reser were rushed to The trouble started/ trust his all to a bank, without rece | when women discovered that prices antee, has been proved almost before the very eyes of had been advanced over night Carp, which sold at 10 cents a} | and several shops on Seventh | certain ‘, 4 pia, halting, delaying, blocking, befuddling the legisla | st. were entered by the wom | | “ieee one of the cers of the battle fleet has mysteriously and completely , tors into procrastination | Intermitcent fighting continued | Philadelphia confirn that th i pe: ° i ‘po no- a It is a strange situati between the women and dealers un-| Celtic had hit a mine, but stated disap ared It is shige sely lost and ES toved safely |body here knows its whereabouts except |ieamned a: the White star offices |President Wilson, Secretary Daniels and the ~ that the Celtic was scheduled to | chief of naval operations. again start for New York today Celtic {a « White Star liner From now on until the end of the war, lof 20,904 tons, 680 feet long and 75 Pot ese ee et Lene and | whether we become involved in hostilities | The Celti: was the first sity to| with Germany. or not, it is not likely our navy — jearry mail fre the United States | to England after inauguration of | Will have its hiding place revealed. the submarine blockade taking over | mails, which had been loaded | Absolute secrecy of movement is the first ~ aboard the | American liner St. Jaw of naval strategy. When the Germans ~ pn tae main |bombarded the east coast of England the that she bad The atrocity of a system which permits one to en iiak eee ing a positive guar i egislature ¢ legislature }pound yesterday was 18 cents to AND NEARLY EVERY BANKER IN THE | day ATE IS FOR THAT LAW TODAY! | The police are watebing every At least. every honest banker is It means trifling jcorner of Philadelphia for other assessment to him—a little added to the amount of insur- | ance he already carries to prevent loss against fire, | burglary, or emy loyers’ defaleations CHICAGO TRYING | t only that—it will place the bank of this state on the most solid ground possible. No depositor will | TO BLOCK FOOD RIOT ever need fear a failure or un” on a bank. The law he ) demonstr ations will assure him that HE is protected, even if the bank HICAGO, “32.—Outwardly, 4 9 FIRES STA people angrily demanded to know where Ad- ~ fails whe ot Subset, eee pa miral Jellicoe’s fleet was 3 2 Ef cr THE “Ee : 2 zg of wheat stored in eleva. ~ AND CONFIDENCE IS THE KEYNOTE O1 nd pa ecking inditrin turaing j rs | “Lost somewhefe ‘in the gry {sound and Newpore will be delat BANKING SUCC b‘sea” was ail the ed “prohibited areas.” a they got from Winston h Mail Is Censored ’ Churchill, then first lord of the ad- Of course, it is impossible to bide! If the legislatare;" thrit "he aevions se parliamentary tactics of juggling a bill | tactory centers « spirit of unrest Ix : i é FAS RN 0 | miralty | battleship, or in fact any other ~ brewing. % American Fleet's Turn | veszel when it is in port, but where to death, is guilty of killing the Nichols So menacing bas this become that ‘ Now it is the turn of the | it has come from and where it is i sf ti ¢ A ft fi to be “lost in; ind the locati if th ‘4 measure in the senate (which is She Flags. | otctals, tearing on oettene® stmiies JAY.MORTON. vaw GAItMn: cond peux | somentore in the blue haze of [of which it le ® pert, will Se seckemnne . , et fro P 1» Feb. All letters f at be tings measure in the house), there ought ae ee eee anes ie ia|, Mra Jay Morton is enjoying a/1290a¢re estate with its 40-room| 22—New Britain is under mar. | Pier rarny: og mper ce e never to be another legislature permit- I tap fate honeymoon in the Orient with the| colonial mansion and large retinue| tial law today with two com. | jication of daily bulletins giv- (ships will be required to address | Denouncing railrdads 686 the tn multi-mifionaire manufacturer and| of servants and continued her ex-| panies of State Guardsmen pa. ing the movements of warships, _ letters “Care of the nayy depart- : ted to sit in session in this state. jterstate commerce commission for arene of Cute , | San duties after Mrs. Morton's} trolling ite streets, following | and Secretary Daniels has re- ment, Waslington.” ' A “y Be he was Miss Margaret Gray of | deat nine simultaneous fires in dif. | | si ne gt 5 THE 1917 LEGISLATURE MUST ACT! NO their hesitancy Hoard of Trade of | pi civiile Ind. and met Morton, Morton is the father of Mrs. J.| ferent parte of the city last | qvagied the Correapendents net hould the great fleet. be seat to 9 | even to speculate concerning European waters, the fact would not the whereabouts of the units of | be made public unless an “incident” EXCUSES CAN OR WILL BE ACCEPTED THIS | Hictals are clamoring for action. when she was nurse to bis first) M. Cudaby, wife of the millionaire} night. Two men are under ar- wife, She also cared for Morton's! packer. rest on suspicion of having “ the fleet. should occur. The fleet would keep CAP a e GIRL HURT AS anesin io tates rushed to Respecting this request, I do not | in constant touch with Admiral Wil- J nd to | rd a guess a 7 8. Be IN. W. Indians Ask 'HESKETH, LANE ip sleetete fire elasm system, [umené to base J a guess as to what | liam nson, chief of naval op TIME. has become of our first line of de-| erations, by wireless. 3" ail Order Liquor Houses BIC AUTO SKIDS That “Rainier” Go) or uatons down (when sev. |fense. But from eight months’ ex-| We have pald out hundreds of 7) | perience in England trying to get a/ millions »f dollars for our fleet; and turned in simultaneous Be ‘ “ line on the goings-on of the British | we believe in our officers and men. | TACOMA, Feb. eb. 23.—The North-| arms as the fir began to * 3 . By, W ill Have to Close Doors ‘ical Podetution ot Anan ta ort up. tho. oki |fleet, I can give a picture of the| They are our first line of defense, | dians, now in session here, is on} Mew Britain he: safeguards the navy depariment|If war comes, we will have to trust ance, | Miss Jessie Reakia. an etaplaye many manufac-| wit) adopt in event of war them and permit them to go about — KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. and Colorado since these three [of the Hollywood ranch, had « nar-|record today With fhe Oe ae. es eee, ick ave been| “The immediate vicinity of our|the business of protecting our in- Scores of Kansas City and states went into the “dry” col- [row escape from injury and porafbie|the national Kaoelup ie akee Be making munitions for the entente navy yards at Portsmouth, Boston, | terests witkcut asking them to elie other West Missouri mail order umn death Thuraday morning when the Mi “ae a ator? " i es. ‘ be rm heed expressed | prookiyn, Philadeiphia, Washing-| ploy a press agent to blazon fortn liquor houses will be forced to The Kansas City dealers |big fiveton truck, driven by G. H. ‘hee - cog WOES prrasinind at some frees c, hoping to stop|ton, Charleston, Mare Island, Puget their every mcve : close their doors as soon as the and, as a result, the wealth of |McCoy, Hollywood, on which she} Resolutions ha tar Fer: Organized tabor unanimousty |*2e!r manufacture, set the fires by | — - nie wai sa OE ‘ Reed bone dry liquor bill, now dollars’ worth of fiquor annu- | was coming to Seattle, skidded at|commending the be ~~ wideicsd eke 3, te mun means of time incendiary bombs, ‘ | . 2 i jfor memorializing the nations + Hesketh, [put no evidence of bombs has been laws it was freely predicted | most of the dealers has swelled "Mine Rankin was thrown from the| ition of the name Rainiet, and esk-) Lane and pledged them their |residences, & garage, a synagogue W ire Uomes I lome ina 4 here tods | enormously. It is believed few | driver's seat onto the sidewalk and fias t aly ans ve aed or it support in the counciimanic tad business block were raked by ’ _ Liquor dealers have supplied | of them can stand the adoption |severely bruised. She was taken to tone A ra "Tahome. race, at the meeting of the Ta uamabe is estimated at above Barrel W h y That S All 9 principally Kansas, Oklahoma of the bill financially her home, at 319 17th ave., where it) Central Labor Counci! Wednes- | $60,000. ’ I veipalls Bice Hace em ——|was said that, tho she was suffer-| la A ; ing f the shock of th cident, day night. Crowds began to march up and Seattle Is Fourth |she was not seriously injured. We will carry on a constructive | down the He ! - ey Ps io | ‘The ranch truck was bringing in PEDOED i ” @ w growing in the air, and Police Chief in Gains Made in a Myth, Says Kin {a targe toad of bottles of milk and ON TOR SHIP essai sald Secretary James |Rawlings asked Mayor Quigley for Right, Folks—It’s Style a ‘ Duncan, “because we are satisfied | militia, Companies I and L, First For goodness sake don't Because a skirt has to look like a Postal Savings of Washington exes, which were scattered over the) SGTON, Peb, 22—-Five| these threo men are the best fitted |Infantry, were called out, and soon| throw away the ash barrel! | a barrel this year to be stylish. |""McCoy escaped ‘without any in-| Americans were aboard the Swedish| to serve the interests of the poo-|had the crowds under control. By Keep the metal polish handy, And the metal polish is for D. tle’; postal savings accounts PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22 juries. steamship Skogland, sunk by'a sub-| Pile.” midnight all blazes were out and If maw, or sister, or wifie is the slippers and the shoes. a ke Meurth in the United States | “That cherry tree yarn ts nothing ~ marine off the coast of Spain on| For the first time in years, all|the city quiet, No further out-) going to step out and show the They're metallic. We've got a % t a harmless myth, but has done | February 18, Consul Hurst of Barce-| the units of the labor coune!! were |breaks, It was said, are expected, | —— ern ——| lot of low down stuff on the : a lot of good.” said’ Geo. La Fay-| “BONE DRY” LAW Joun reported to the state depart.|Unanimoualy in favor of indorsing |but the troops are kept on guard | any inn: : igtifeg show that the increase in ette Washington, great-great-grand.| lment today. The Skogiand sailed | the same three candidates, pa & matter of precaution | Ten young models were up depOsits for this elty during Janu- pectuw of the ; “Father of his | SHOULD BE KEPT |": Norfolk with a cargo of coal Page “024 EP in MacDougall - Southwieck’s 4 »d $3,600,000, which | Country,” here today noli, Ital ERICKSON TO N Phursday get eady ary, 1917, totaled § Nera | for Bagn a RIC Jl WOMAN SOLON GIVES Thursday getting ready to tip 4 Seattle folks how to fuss up, They're going to gel'a lot of 3 money for showing off. the styles at the Washington hotel dinner dance tonight, and ‘ath the Coliseum theatre Frida’ is about five times the increase for ey \ ~ mm h 1915. There was ~ ¢ ever to ever be caught Washington's bor dry law is ARROWDALE CELEBRA maine F102, 108 tor the month. | {f « lle,” he explained, “but he was| drier than the measure passed iY ‘MEN Ww. RG. TION MEN A SMOKE TREAT Federal figures show that 675,000 |t20 human to have never told « lie,| by congress to raise the bare | REPORTED RELEASED Patriotic addresses will be made depositors thirucut the country have | Therein lies his strength.” | against liquor importations into py Councilman Oliver T. Erickson, i 4 } a Fa , OLYMPIA Feb, 22.—M P| Leto ioe Malling, $116,600,000, de-|, George La Fayette Washington hibition states, so ought to D. Lane, candidate for the coun:|witinnw ren ey representative — from | | | ae ———— bank clerk there. He is the son of| opinion of George OD. Conger, | dispatch from Berlin, via Am- | dent of the Commercial Club and posited in the postal cavings bank, | llves In Woodbury, N. J., and is a| be kept on the books, in the LONDON, Feb. 22—A Reuter | cil, and Robert Boyns, former prest-| North Yakima, has endeared her.| night. And Friday at 11:30 a.m. SE si “we ] 4 , : self to every smoking thember of | and 3:30 p.m. they'll parade on w, Hicvard B. Warhington. provident of the State Anti- sterdam, today, declared that [the Women’s Relief Corps will| {he state legislature as the result runway at MacDougall’s, Same —— peptagied league. | the American prisoners on the | #erve linsteon at the big 1917 get-| o¢ ner motion to suspend’ Rule No. | thing there at 11:30 a, m. Sat- Rv HOLT LINER SUNK In my opinion the national meas-| Yarrowdale have been released, | together meeting of the Ballard) 99 at Wednesday's’ session | urdoy. | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S jure leaves a loop hole,” says Conger, os Hooster club Monday night. It will} Rule No, 20 provides there shall No Place for Color Blind DAILY TALK, fA |"It_ permits importations for sclen-| MI8S~ MacCLURE, late of the|be held at Eagles’ hall, 22nd ave. | ye no wmoking in thaghouse. Afto | a | See ay LONDON, Feb 29 The Holt | tific, medicinal or mechanical pur-|“Midnight Follies,”. will be the} and Ballar| ave. | th reading of « ‘lontbatini phen It'll be no place for a color 3 === === | liner Perseus has been sunk. Three |poses, Our bone dry measure only|model at the fashion show at the) Charles Knosher is in charge of | "tna clerk bona to reed. ny | diind critic 3 3 ideatiniate Chinese ana one European of those permits Mquor to come into the|Hotel Washington Thursday, at 9 :80/ the entertainment, ‘There will be| “Me Mrs Williams noted the rent Pe For Apatation. Regia aboard are missing. state for sacramental purposes.” p.m, imusic and adings. | je res! home under a jone in a RARE AR ~ ~ TN Bae Mantle even’ Ml wl sett A 8 : ™ |lessness of many of the delegates | »se col and a striped sport | | | nese colors and a striped sport TOMORROW jand offered a motion, suspending | suit with Chinese designs all the rule, She was loudly cheered, | over it, and admit she’s dressed wteuzscr'ztz {WATCHFUL WAITING KEPT WASHINGTON se | se ttle's best stores ‘« | | ene a, mec ; cinta {7 BANKERS ASK | All Right, She Says Wd 77 seary time to | It's all right, the model at a oe A OUT OF TWO BIG EUROPEAN WARS|/ oa tarefully read the ads in. tc | t | MacDougall’s insisted. But if Standard Furniture Co, Pag -_—_—- i] the slippers must be flesh col ; , Grote-Rankin Co.. The foreign policy of the United States today, altho much more must be run in waiting to know it.” Headed by J. E. Chilberg, of | | ored, too. \ | Movie news and ads... Pag puzzling and complicated, is a repetition of the international troubles Washington's controversy with England arose over that cor the Scandinavian - American | Some of the boots for the 5 | N-South wick intry's | | | MacDours ‘ ane George Washington faced when he was president of the country. lfailure to fulfill its treaty obligations, England still kept its garrisons| bank, 17 bankers from thruout street are very high. Just how \ j Stone Brow. ‘Tailors Page 6 Washington had as serious a problem with France as Wilson has/at our northwest and northern borders, was charged with inciting| the state have forwarded reso. | | high the young lady would not_ «9 q Wake pace .f ig| With Mexico \Indians on our border to invade the country, seized neutral vegsels| lWwtions to the house and sen- | | say. a amt Frederick & Nelson ..Page 10 During Washington's first term the people of France were revolting | going to and from France, and impressed our seamen into her service,| at, Urging passage of propos- | How It Started? ‘ 4 and were calling upon the United States for @ return of the help France When John Jay returned with a treaty between England and the| @4 bank guaranty bill, The war don’t cut such a a Ths, best offerings of Seat- Y) gave us during our revolution United States, there was a wild uproar against its approval, because Flossie Stecher, one of the models} wath in the creations this ote a ae The revolutionists sent an envoy, Genet, here to enlist our ald, | nothing was mentioned about the impressment of American sailors, Ss DAKOTA B NE DRY who will exhibit “barrel” skirt) foiic "The pacifists. have ‘The country seemed to be wild with enthusiasm and sympathy for . e at Seattle. “4 : . ’ \ things their own way aa fl the revolutioninte, But Washington insisted on waiting until the heat | it Kept Him Out of Two Wars | tinge thelr gen was hence of public opinion cooled down Hut Washington again waited until heated public opinion died down| PIRRRE, 8. D, Feb. 22,—"How| folk > : | etre! ORR, 22, s how to dress, she'll need And the barrel idea—it wa » MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES |) _ “It is on great occasions only, and after time has been Jand the people saw the treaty worked well. dry | am” was sung by 60 prohibi-| ’em. used before the war. In tage, } DAILY given for cool and deliberate reflection,” Washington id, | Hy watehful waiting, as President Wilson bas done with Mexico|tionists a8 Gov. Norbeck toda ‘Take the ash barrel, for in- barrel skirts have been popufaeal 14 | “that the real voice of the people can be known,” and Wilson and is now doing with Germany, Washington was able to keep out of|signed the bone dry bill, effectiy stance, around swimming boles fer adds, in his biography of the first president, “but a great risk two wars JJuly 4, She can use it for a model. severations my , , —