The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1917, Page 1

LAST EDITION _ The book with the largest clroula- tion among young men today is tna book of cigaret papers, And it’s be- corning a mighty popular book with the ladies, too, according to U. &. statistics The weather night and Sunday, warmer tonight.” ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time The seattle Star |, RR RRR nnn THE ONLY _PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO. ‘PRINT ‘THE NEWS “To. rain or snow; forecast is ONE CENT VOLUME 19. on SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1917 TRAINS AND 7} N be SEATTLE MEDIUM IS BURNE WAY DE FROM ANK LAW UST BE ASSED’ Lister. |(AMERICA and YOU!’ Every Right That We Enjoy Is sagt Because Some Other Day There Were Men That Were Willing to Fight and Die for}: “A VOICE FROM HISTORY! “OUR Country! May SHE Aways BE IN THE RIGHT; Bur Our SOUNTRY, RIGHT OR Pi Gov. Ernest | ment today to The} OLYMPIA, Fe a Gov. rina Mrs. Josephine Miller, 60, a medium, was fatally burned at 11 a. m. Saturday when her dress caught fire from a hot * . : J “ stove in her apartments at 1203 | | ao Ges Cte E. Denny way. my ; Z % 4 With her clothes a mass of flames she ran out of her apart- ments to the People’s grocery store at 1201 £. Denny way, where the flames were smoth- ered only after having com sumed practically all her cloth- ing. She was given first aid treatment with bicarbonate of soda by Lieut. ; Blackford of Engine Co. No. 11, and then taken to the city hospital, where her condition was pro nounced hopeless this afternoon. Efforts were being made by the |city hospital authorities to locate her daughter. | A man in the employ of the = Three Girls Bakery was the first — to re the burning women when she entered the People’s grocery. He threw his overcoat around her, jand it was quickly burned | Charles Smith, stoker on Engine | No. 11, helped put out the flames | with his cost. Lieut. Blackford then put bicarbonate of soda om Mrs. Miller's burns. 7 DUTCH be SUNK. BY DY LONDON be Se 24,—Seven Dutch ships, with a total of more than 27,000 tons, were vic- Star It,” Says Russell. os losses | strongly urged the passage of aw by the present legislature to antee bank depositors against | Iam strongly in favor of a [state bank guaranty law,” said the BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL (WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE STAR) After all, brethren, America— that doesn’t mean just a chance to)", pile up money and gamble in stocks and get automobiles and go to tea}. parties and gabble and idle and grow fat and so end, does it? At least, that isn’t what it has meant heretofore in the world’s af-| fairs. h a law should present session of that » t the ature urged the strengthening banking laws of the # by ding t s of the state aml) aminer, he nwibility, and giv authority to % that bank to the} Some of us seem to have forgotten our American history and to} tows and conduct their business on | | need a slant or two at the records to get our bearings and remember *“* Pr ane Up what it is to be an American. bank guaranty laws have} ‘. With all our supposed devotion to the dollar hunt and so on, this) Oy? yo'Qinge. Qiie leeiatatore | Sountry has always had more idealism than any other on earth, and |compslsory on ail state banks 10 that is not boasting, but merely fact. dally Gepcaite toe a gear It began with an utterance on the inherent rights of man that was |; fund, which will protect all| far and away the finest word ever said on that subject. should t The Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s liner Senator, southbound with a general cargo from Se- attle for San Pedro, Cal., col- lided with the Border Line Transportation Co.'s vessel Northland shortly after 1 a. m. Saturday, badly damaging the latter, according to meager re- ports received in this city by the Merchants’ Exchange. The collision occurred off Blunt reef, near Eureka, Cal The Northland was so badly aged it was necessary to turn her 3 about and head for San Francisco Savings ‘uit speed passengers and the usual coastwisey care cording to officials of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. The following nks have in. dorsed the bank guaranty law 80 as to Kive depositors abso- lute protection against loss Seattle » bank Scandanivian-A meric American Savings Trust Co. Uni ‘an ba The joint committee on banking | It inspired and helped along the uprisings that drove | saaruether 2 .comptsary | ave i land of such vast riches as Cuba and returned to its own people a pearl The scene of the accident is off| western approaches of the Engl of such a nature that the vesse was | jof the Dutch authorities. Neither ~ ing with a conquered foe. ” mitors. The other, by Repre |aentative Farveworth of Lincoln | It made its faith into deeds at the price of sorrow and blood. he 20 mittee on bank oO iy on # ano bl It was the inspiraton and parent of the French revolution, the great-|Msctreat oo Stil cacteee Sala ed, will combine the best features of both, the. Western continent and launched the South American republics. |"T belive a jay can be worked out ° ¥ © It helped Greece to win her independence of Turkey. [Tock of making it fmpensibie. for It has always been on the side of every people struggling to be free.| ay state bank to remain outside | It made a war to destroy slavery. tims of the “barred zone” it was stated today. of such price. The United States has done that twice. THe scene of the accent tx oft |western approaches of the I It is the only country that ever carried on a huge altruistic enterprise | called by many steamship men, the \bound, with full cargoes. It was like the government of the Philippines. It is the only country that has} ina Atcaae ite eek to ee Sere eee ptr persetverhhr iene! ever returned as excessive a part of a national indemnity. It is the only able to proceed southward. » Senator was formerly on the the Dutch government nor the ship No casualties were reported 4 run and was owned by the owners requested of received infor- —— _— aship Co. before |mation from the admiralty as to It has things to its credit and things to its debit, like other nations; r of that concern |their courses nt thru all it has kept in sight an ideal. THAT IDEAL IS DEMOCRACY, DECENCY AND PEACE. county, makes {t eptional est boon to mankind in all modern times. Spain out ot | “Whether a compulsory law fs its provisions | : It is the only country in all history that ever held possession of a) mer LOC L LINERS IN CRASH AT SEA | Honor Roll | | neater a a Senator is above the water ling jer Bear and numerous other ves-|the danger zone were in the hands country that has ever acted upon principles of abstract justice when deal- Alaska Pacific Steamship| The Holland-American ne was We are now coming to a time when we shall be put to a test about ~ i . with the |BERNSTORFF PARTY WILL BE RELEASED ‘alon Savings & Trost Co, \In Time of Peace bank Prepare for War People’s Savings bank University State bank Other Cities & owner of two of the ships. The vessels sunk were: | The Zaandyk, Noorderdyk, Bem- |land, Gasterland, Jacatra, Menado and Bandoeng. Crews of all were safely landed. LIBERTY, GOOD WILL, dam ; Jingoistic reports that President Wilson will sign the congressional the dry bill raised thunder with this faith that is in us. For almost three years we have looked with horror and pity upon Europe, bleed ‘ ing undef a war bro ught upon it by sur- viving autocracy. In the 20th century, hatchet has in industry. PEACE OR A TRUCE? If the war ends without abolish of poisons it will end in which another ancient fountain but a rea truce ty for nothing in will get greater lf democracy the profess ends with we great sp’ al the wars will be thrown aside expect men have the jungle except them. If Europe all had been It is behind the thrones game is hatched and turned It is weil to seek peace But not into the horse pool Also, there is no use ourselves about the terms can be had and kept MEN DIED FOR LIBERTY enlight liberty, products of that we Democracy, peace are Every right CAUSE IN _ SOMI THERE WERE MEN WILLING TO FIGHT, TO DIE FOR II If this world had been 50 INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT TOLEDO, Feb, 24,—Running at a high rate of speed, a street car crowded with 108 workmen bound for the Willis Overland Automobile shops, turned over here at 6:30 this morning. It is autocracy more place in government than a triumph there vwakening in which we thrown other relics of the kings all there would have been no war that and in tr on which peace sacrifice enjoy OTHER THAT and, inhabited ‘many were faint from want of oir.) Friday clusively by peace-at-any-price men, we should be today nothing but INTELLECT- UAL AND PHYSICAL SLAVES, THE WHOLE GANG OF US War is t t thing r to be th But things One is to know inherit what has been gained but ‘unwilling to preserve it WILL WE KEEP LIBERTY? know that you all your an with the reflection that all the saints and hero f democracy and liberty and SUFFERED IN WE HAVI SURRI THEY HAD WON To be always oj that were too ¢ too ¢g of | and too of our fat ease KEEP FOR OUR CHILDREN what was built for us out of the lood fathers while w f Pasco, Ps s bank, El ain Trust Co., ington Trust nsburg Spokane. lightly Co., Spo orse has no stone zht there war are we ‘kane State bank, Spo. than that you are w Puget Sound Bank & Trust ig t ‘o., Tacoma make any the war, world still To days dr it existence wei will be have wro cight VAIN BECAUSI aside as NDERED WHAT You have your observations, You have your ideas your thoughts, experiences The incident after another jworth editorial thought Perhaps vou have an ide {best editorial that The 8 the next we ed with the thot urdly, that blight re we democracies that ts of our the war for the loose. pursue alway fact t during it, and sen For the best editorial p. m. Friday, The 8 Do not write more than 250 words. Wr (better still, |typewrite) it on one side of the |sheet, Sign your name and ad |dress. None others will be consid- | ered | | were " ov to were also 1 others to fight for u DUTY LAID UPON US Is all this likely to be said of American Brethren, there is now opening before u a view of the duty laid upon us, to make Europe democratic and to it free to the world enduring peace America will be to turn that duty, it a public take a handful and erase | records men clous } 1 fight ENOUGH for ourselves we to allow ying to fe jup to 2 r will $10. nment and make BI DAY WERE if necessary, is ours and bring Befe back ceremony, from tory ore willir from will, in of mud that y arning chance, | uv amish, see that lare properly credited Put cotton in your ears | More Snow or Rain, eek neither to the right Says Forecaster |!«t Keep neutral se if you don't you may be involved in the hostilities pif, any minute mish is the former peaceful folk who dwell on a » Duwamish river south the mars = your passports and wear estimated 50 were hurt, several fatally. The crash jammed the car doors tightly shut, and the hundred men were caught like rats in a trap, The tangled mass of human be ings fought and scrambled, and prayed in a dozen tongues, while firemen from a nearby station tried to open the doors. There had been iding room left in the ear n the firemen chopp.d holes in the roof and pulled the men ont, nor the Hecau ilisbury’s Ho promis More Sunday now or is Weathe prediction rain tonight rman $§ aturday warmer weather { ; last night was another coid one 10 with the mereury going down to m, The 36 in the 26 above at was warmest afternoon | each other for opportunities & to ex world is full of one human | you're bound for | ailed from Se Washington's HAMMOND BACK IN COUNTY JAIL y Clerks in ~\|ment Friday Altogether, jout permits. women. This since prohibit Harry Hammond, the man whom ex-Sheriff Hodge allowed his liberty that he attend his in wlene David hand Von the . tt ar on y morning following his arrest in Vancouver, B. C. Hammond, it is learned, tried to enlist in the British army, but was refused Th r ard ef $100 offered by Sher: r will go to whatever Vancouver policeman made the ar MANN WHITE SLAVE — LAW WITHIN STATE OLYMPIA, concurs in Senate shipys the gang morning jurt hospital i.—If the house Bil 44, which d the upper house almost imously, the Mann ntl-white » law will apply to cases with *, as Well as in interstate Transportation of female or male from © another within the # commercial jena is to be punished by a pen ported killed jured are following cannot be ° CHICAGO, itentiary term, For other purposes and mixed the punishment ts to be a jail sen- tence. {change hot words store stove has urrounded da untary det This state of affairs is |fact that two factions are bound to} posing gam trample each other in an effort to | Otto Rost win the school board election next i Saturday Alexander Washington, who| [crosses the Duwamish every morn-| ing on his way to work clan in Seattle, is commander one faction. He is trying to elect | Walter Bass and Louis Ludwick to join him on the school board But he is fighting against odds jdespite the prestige of the Wa r Hington family’s reputation in war- i whole One grocery | fare. been completely and night by vol-| Dr, William armies of stead as electri Listen | the Their Alexander affair and wa destructive way late yesterday some of| you'll hear the from Duwamish Theo Issites are thus explained by | his great namesake principal combatants 74 Of the Gangland, which is lying s dat West plank ad nd sold hundred pounds est price ever paid in Chicago. is arly ved 2 here the liquor permit depart persons took S94 were 8 the largest record DECK HAND FALLS OFF BOAT; HURT 40, North Wir tle, fel from urday | minor in taken to the s 14 ARE KILLED IN STORM IN SOUT Feb. 24 many others re 100 today's « 4 storm that ripped ite across three states Property pcurately estimated or more i alty figur Hos reach ed a new high record when heavies, port steamer Minas, sunk by for $13 per/man submarine This is the high- Teeth Gnashed Olmstead ler, whose offic e due to the} cade building, nd John Meck y cne Washington quiet evening gnashing has © 118 voters in the town | shoe” joined the and Olm-| of tee Statements Ww star ington — This because Dr. deck city | Four. damage mental | trict -| Olmstead do but and | ath | HALIFAX, N b expected here tod vu, f and his 1 lowed to proceed on her journey to Denmark tonight Officials from outside this city engaged in the ex amination of her sengers end cargo are returning home. TO HANG MOONEY . - AT SAN QUENTIN SAN FRANCISCO, Thomas J. Mooney, uM y that the Count It is Fred erick beari Bernstortf yarty may ot| edness pa rade dynamiting, will be hange San Quentin prison on May 17 | Superior Judge Franklin Griffin today jcomplicity in the preps at] overruled Mooney's motion | for a new trial and set that date; for the execution 998 KILLED WHEN TRANSPORT SINKS BERLIN yville, Feb, 24 {Only two men survived out of the 1,000 troops aboard the Italian trans-| a Ger- in the Mediterra press bureau announced via nean, the ltoday. mashingven Crosses the Duwamish, But War Is War'|] :: Olmstead wa ‘board of direct a year being € ousted from the of our schoo! dis. on account of his | zen. What did! bolt the tieket | 8 to follow | ula “gum own grocery | z Otto Ros. McKeen were out) j not meeting at the store The next morni berg and John Jin the race. | Town Boss? | Dr, Olmstead—That man Wash. | ington sure is a lot different from | He's the town } joss. These men who ar | lem are nothing but figun and tools of his. ‘The school never | was in such @ condition as now, |The total tonnage is more than 27, 'o00 CORR 8 Cee NO SUBS LOST SAYS BERLIN NEWSPAPER BERLIN, via Sayville Wireless, Feb, 24.—"N have been lost since February 1,” the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger assert- ed today. 25 New Citizens Made Here Today Twenty-five new Americans pass-~ ed naturalization tests in federal court Saturday, and were admitted to citizenship Seven were British, eight Swed- lish, six Norwegian, two German, one Russian and one Italian. 'U. S. SHIP BEATS DIVER BLOCKADE BORDEAUX, Feb. 24. — The American S. S. Rochester was ex: |pected to dock here this evening, jhaving safely passed thru the barred zon | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK Some Corking Good Programs DAILY